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The alkaline water is cooked down to a quarter, a quarter part of jaggery is added and it is cooked to the consistency of phanita, a quarter part of trikatu, trijata and nagaramotha powder is mixed in, and it is kept in a prepared pot buried in grain for a month.
Detailed answer
In verses 41-42 the ash of talmakhana, sugarcane, musli, tilaja, apamarga, nirgundi, rambha, arka, lotus, castor, chitraka, sesame and other drugs is stirred into four times its water and strained to give the alkaline water. A footnote defines phanita as sugarcane juice cooked until slightly thick yet still liquid. Taken by rule, the text says it overcomes even incurable great diseases.
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- Chapters
- Chapter 25
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- T28
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