Restoring the skin colour

When the ulcers have healed, the skin colour is restored by applying, with ghee and sugar, turmeric, red ochre, or cool fragrant sandal or manjishtha; or kapittha, shali rice, khas and hribera, or peas, kaleyaka and jasmine leaves, or sesame and dark sandal, ground in milk and mixed with cow's ghee. A footnote explains savarna as making the skin match the surrounding skin or its colour before the ulcer.