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The thin are built up with nourishing medicines and the stout are made lean with reducing (karshana) measures.
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Verse 29 says prameha patients are of these two kinds by birth or through unwholesome diet. The course that follows is a dry diet that avoids alcohol, milk, ghee, sour things, sweets, curd, sugarcane and meat; oleation with sesame, linseed and mustard oil and emesis with neem juice and madanaphala; purgation; a niruha enema with cow urine and sesame oil; and grains and pulses such as kodo millet, barley, wheat and green gram.
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- Chapter 11
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- T08
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