Oil pressed from black sesame soaked many times in bala-root decoction and dried is cooked again and again with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction; taken by the rasayana regimen to the amount of one drona, it is said to give long life and a faultless body.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शतपाक बलातैल
- Hindi
- शतपाक बला तैल
- English
- Shatapaka Bala oil (Bala oil cooked a hundred times)
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Bala (country mallow)खरैटी (बला) | बलामूल का कषाय | शतांश / सैगुना कषाय · a hundredfold quantity of decoction |
| Sesame (tila)तिल | कृष्णसत्तिल / काले तिल | Not stated |
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल) | तैल | द्रोणमेव / एक द्रोण (पैने तेरह सेर) प्रमाण सेवन · one drona in all |
Preparation as described
Black sesame is soaked many times in bala-root decoction and dried, the oil is pressed out and cooked repeatedly with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction.
बलामूल के कषाय से अनेक बार भावित काले तिल से तैल निकाल कर उससे,
How it is used
Taken by the rasayana regimen.
रसायन सेवन विधान से, एक द्रोण (पैने तेरह सेर) प्रमाण सेवन किया जाये तो दीर्घायु एवं शरीर
Quantities are reported exactly as the source states them. They are historical measures, not dosage advice.
तत्कषायबहुभावितशुष्क। कृष्णसत्तिलनिपीडिततैलम्॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 207 · v. 70-71.All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Footnote 1 on PDF 279 explains this kind of cooking: decoction equal to the oil is added and cooked each day, and after a hundred days the oil is ready.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Formulation
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- formulation_shatapaka_bala_taila_p279