Madhukadi preparations

Powder or paste of licorice, turmeric, devadaru, kantakari, small cardamom, nut grass and amalaki is drunk with sour gruel, milk or rice water; amalaki juice (one kuduba, 16 tola) alone or with sugarcane juice, or cardamom, shilajit and long pepper in jaggery water, is drunk; and cardamom and asafoetida powder with ghee and jaggery in milk is said to destroy many kinds of urinary obstruction and semen-related urinary diseases.