Abhaya, musta and dry ginger powder with jaggery

A powder of abhaya, musta and dry ginger eaten with jaggery is said to remove kapha cough quickly.

Names and synonyms

Ingredients

Ingredient	As written in the text	Quantity as written
Haritaki (chebulic myrobalan)हरड़ (हरीतकी)	अभया (भावार्थ: खस)	Not stated
Musta (nut grass)नागरमोथा (मुस्ता)	घन / मोथा	Not stated
Shunthi (dry ginger)सोंठ (शुण्ठी)	शुणठी	Not stated
Jaggery (guda)गुड़ (गुड)	गुड	Not stated

Preparation as described

The drugs are powdered.

शलेष्मकासमभयाघनशुणठी-। चूर्णमाशु विनिहंति गुडेन।

How it is used

Eaten with jaggery.

इनके चूर्ण को गुड के साथ खावें

Indicated for, as the text says

Effect on the doshas, as stated

Kapha: pacifies

खस, मोथा, शुणठी, इनके चूर्ण को गुड के साथ खावें, तो शलेष्मज कास दूर होता हैSource wording as converted, Chapter 16 · p. 327 · v. 23.

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

Extraction notes

The verse reads अभया (haritaki); the bhavartha renders the first drug as खस (ushira).

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