Treatment of kushtha from the three doshas

In kushtha from the three doshas the patient drinks ghee or good oil cooked with drugs that break the force of kushtha, to purify the body. After judging curability and letting blood from a vein, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga, nili root, bhringaraja and punarnava in equal parts, steeped in a bark decoction of neem, asana, amaltas and prishniparni and repeatedly in brahmi juice, is eaten in doses from a jujube up to a bibhitaka fruit (one tola); taken regularly it is said to remove all kushthas, prameha, abdominal diseases, haemorrhoids, worms, fistula, foul sinuses, nodules, swellings and other diseases.