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Snuhi (milk hedge)

थूहर (स्नुही) · स्नुही

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
स्नुहीसेहुण्डवज्रीगुडासमन्तदुग्धासुधा
Hindi
थूहरस्नुहीसेहुंडसेंहुड़थोहर
English
Snuhimilk hedgesnuhieuphorbia
Romanized
snuhithuharsehund
Marathi
निवडुंग

What the text says

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Properties1

  • All kinds of snuhī (thūhar) are counted among the latex (milk) poisons.

    Chapter 19 · p. 414 · v. 31Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Safety

  • Editorial safety note: irritant, strong_purgative, professional_supervision. This is a library classification, not a statement from the source.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.

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Topics of the text that discuss it

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Healing wickHeartwood, exudate, bark, latex and mineral poisonsNaracha gheePlant glossary, letter section म, entries 1–30 (मगधोद्भवा to माणकी)Plant glossary, क्ष section, entries 1–12 (क्षणदा to क्षुरक)Plant glossary, ग entries 19–29 (गोशृंग to गुंजा)Plant glossary, ग entries 5–18 (गायत्रिका to गोशीर्ष)Plant glossary, व section, entries 1–53 (वकुला to व्योष)Plant glossary, स section, entries 1–48 (सद्धातकीकुसुम to स्नुही)Purgation for vata in the colonSalt cooked in decoctionTreatment of kapha-type udara

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 21 times on 15 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

How is naracha ghee prepared, and how long is it taken?

Cow milk four times the snuhi latex is boiled with it, set into curd with buttermilk and churned; the butter is cooked again with snuhi latex. It is drunk for half a month or a month.

Detailed answer and sources
Which senses does the glossary give for क्षीर, and which entries after it gather milky plants?

Milk and the gum of the सरल tree in the Hindi column, and water, milk, बकाण निंब, the milk of a cow that has just calved, खीर and a kind of incense in the Marathi column. क्षीरद्रुम, क्षीरी, क्षीरिका and क्षीरिणी then list milky trees and plants.

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All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Herb
Categories
Medicinal plantLatexPurgative
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
15
Chapters
Chapter 19
Extraction tasks
T20
Record id
ingredient_snuhi