Further measures against kapha

Kapha is calmed by holding gargles of mustard and the like, of salty, pungent, astringent and bitter drugs and of hot water; by cleaning the teeth with sticks of neem, karanja, babul and similar trees and a tooth powder of the three pungents and salt; and by using lemons, cane shoots, chickpea alkali, citron, jambira, tamarind and the rest of the sour group with the three pungents and the five salts. Footnotes list the sour group (from Rasendrasarasangraha) and define gandusha.