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Study question (generated from the text)
A person afflicted by grey hair, wrinkles and old age is first purified by emesis, purgation and the like, then given nasya of the oil with great care in a windless house, repeatedly for a month.
Detailed answer
The oil is one adhaka of bibhitaki oil cooked with a paste of many flowers, herbs and minerals, one tola each, made with decoctions of asana, khadira heartwood and triphala and kept ten days in an iron pot. The text says the nasya removes nose diseases (in the commentary), makes the face like a lotus and even the old youthful, and that the oil should be given to loved ones; these are the text's traditional statements.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 23
- Extraction tasks
- T26
- Record id
- qa_T26_09