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Food
Aged ghee (purana ghrita)
पुराना घी (पुराण घृत) · पुराणघृत
Unlike most medicines, which are said to be more potent when fresh, ghee is said to become richer in special qualities when old.
Topic
Bath, massage and ghee against the Revati graha
रेवती ग्रह में स्नान, अभ्यंग और घृत · रेवतीग्रहघ्न स्नान, अभ्यंग, घृत
The child is bathed with mantra-purified water prepared with the roots of sariva, ashvagandha, meshashringi and punarnava, massaged with oil prepared with kushtha and sal resin, and given…
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Bath, oil and ghee against the Rakshasa graha
राक्षस ग्रह में स्नान, तैल और घृत · राक्षसग्रहघ्न स्नान, तैल, घृत
The child is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha, or with warm kanji; massaged with oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu,…
Procedure
Liquid sudation (drava sveda)
द्रवस्वेद
The oil-massaged patient sits in a large iron or copper vessel of warm vata-reducing decoction reaching to the chest, or sits in an empty vessel while the decoction is poured over him in a…
Procedure
Massage with oil and with ghee
तैल-घृत अभ्यंग
Massage with oil is said to destroy kapha and vata, and massage with ghee pitta and blood disorders (the commentary: raktapitta). Entering through the hair pores, it is said to nourish (the…
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Oil and ghee against the Anuputana graha
अनुपूतना ग्रह में तैल और घृत · अनुपूतनाघ्न तैल व घृत
The child's body is massaged with sesame oil prepared with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, realgar and kanji, and he is given ghee cooked with long pepper, long pepper root and the sweet…
Procedure
Procedure of the uttarabasti
उत्तरबस्ति प्रयोग विधि
The patient fit for uttarabasti is oleated and bathed (sweated) with warm water, given a gruel with ghee and milk to drink and made to pass stool and urine. He is seated squatting on a…
Procedure
Replacing and bandaging a prolapsed yoni
प्रस्रंसिनी योनि को प्रविष्ट कर बांधना
The prolapsed yoni is smeared with ghee and put back, covered with a paste of sesame oil and cumin, and firmly bandaged.
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Treatment of prasramsini (prolapsed yoni)
प्रस्रंसिनी योनि की चिकित्सा · प्रस्रंसिनी योनिरोग चिकित्सा
A yoni hanging far down (prasramsini) is smeared with ghee and put back in place, covered with a paste of sesame oil and cumin, and firmly bandaged.