Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- काशी फलपीला कद्दू
- English
- Yellow pumpkin (kashiphala)
Ayurvedic properties
Only the qualities the text states are listed. The claims below give each statement with its source.
- Qualities (guna)
- Shita
- Effect on the doshas
- Kapha: aggravatesVata: aggravates
- Actions
- PushtikaraVrishyaMala pravartaka
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Properties1
Yellow pumpkin (काशी फल) heads the creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly vata-producing, clearing the bowels, wholesome and aphrodisiac.
Find everywhere it is used
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1Topics of the text that discuss it
1Where else is this mentioned?
Named 1 times on 1 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The commentary's first gloss is काशी फल (पीला कद्दू); which verse word it renders (probably कर्कारु) is not certain.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Food
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Chapter 4
- Extraction tasks
- T03
- Record id
- ingredient_kashiphala