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White arka (verse amalina arka) is named among the five bṛhatīs, said to suit kapha disorders, remove kuṣṭha, destroy worms, counter poison and always suit fever.

Orpiment and turmeric powder mixed in arka latex are applied as a paste; the text says piles subside.

For all kinds of sinus wounds (nadivrana), rice pudding (payasa) cooked with the root of arka is to be given daily in the diet; the verse says it brings daily relief.

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Sharkara (urinary gravel) is described as kapha in the bladder that is dried by heat and broken by vata into sand-like grains; lodged in the urinary passage they cause severe pain, and…

Alternatively, in kapha-dominant ear disease, goat urine mixed with garlic, arka juice and rock salt is warmed a little and filled into the ear; the commentary says this calms ear disease…

Pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse) are pounded and ground with arka latex and applied as a paste on piles.

Without giving food, the facial palsy patient is given sour liquid and curd to drink, then sweated again and again by the various kinds of sudation told before, and massaged with arka oil.

Goat urine, garlic and arka juice are mixed, warmed and filled into the ear, and held for a hundred, five hundred or a thousand matra; the earache is said to subside.

Aggravated kapha and vata, vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and all the ligaments, form a very hard large nodule that, when it ripens and bursts, discharges matter like honey, fat or…

Kapha entering the bladder with urine settles like mud in a new pot, is dried hard by heat and is broken by vata into sand-like grains.

A person poisoned by the tuber poison karkaṭaka is said to leap up, wander about and laugh excessively.

A child seized by the Putana graha is sprinkled with water boiled with the ghost-conquering drugs neem, varuna, arka, nili and asphota.

A child seized by the Pishacha graha is bathed well with water boiled with kuberaksha (patala), arka, bamboo, gandharvahasta, aragvadha and bilva.

Opens the section on sharkara. The running head keeps this title on the following pages, which also cover ashmari, uttara basti and bhagandara.

Sharkara vartma is listed among the nineteen curable eye diseases born of all three doshas.

A person poisoned by karkaṭaka leaps up, wanders about and laughs a great deal. Kardamaka makes both eyes yellow and causes diarrhoea and burning.

A hard, large pimple in the eyelid that spoils it, surrounded by clusters of other small itching pimples, is vartmasharkara, arising from kapha and vata.

Bhūśarkarā, glossed as sweet potato (सकरकंद) and similar tubers, is listed among tubers said to be tasty, nourishing, poison-countering and wholesome in vata disorders.

Hardened, gritty deposit of dirt on uncleaned teeth that causes them to decay; it is removed without wounding the tooth roots.

An eyelid disease from kapha and vata: a large hard pimple ringed by small itching ones.

Cucumber (खीरा; verse trapuṣa) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Sugar, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.