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A footnote says that ambashthika can also mean patha (pahadmul); the commentary itself renders it as ambada.

Ambashthika, a juicy pomegranate and tinduka cooked in buttermilk and drunk are said to relieve diarrhoea at once.

हिन्दी: पाठा, यूथिका, पाढा, जुही · मराठी: पहाडमूळ

Patha is one of the five plants in whose juice mercury is said to be fixed.

Bark of cinnamon (as the commentary reads tvak), aralu, kutaja, mango, kadamba and jambu is ground with thick rice water, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked by the putapaka method;…

A decoction of vacha, musta, ativisha and liquorice reduced to one eighth is strained and drunk with ambashthika; it is said to check even a torrential diarrhoea.

A decoction of vacha, musta, ativisha and liquorice boiled down to one eighth and strained is drunk with ambashthika added; it is said to check even a diarrhoea flowing like the Ganga in…