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Ashmari (urinary stone) is described as kapha that hardens in the bladder into a dense stone. Kapha predominates in every stone, but four kinds are named after the leading factor: kapha,…

Named in this range only as a disorder that horse gram is said to remove.

Ash gourd (kuṣmāṇḍa, white gourd), which the commentary names for the verse's 'creeper fruits', is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

The pox patient is fanned all round, constantly, with leaves of ashoka, neem, mango and kadamba.

Aśmantaka fruit (glossed पाषाणभेद in the commentary) is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Pīpal (sacred fig) fruit, as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Linganasha is described as timira that has reached the fourth layer of the eye and blocks sight completely; it is also called nilika kacha and has six dosha types, besides two externally…

Āśudhāna, matched by position to the verse word pāṭala, is listed among fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly increasing vata…

The verse compares surgery to the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings and lists its eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing for unseen arrows and other foreign…

Ghee prepared with the eight sweet drugs (kakolyadi), licorice and bamboo manna is given to drink to a child seized by the Putana graha.

Ghee cooked with the eight sweet drugs (kakolyadi), licorice, bamboo manna and milk is given to drink to a child seized by the Pishacha graha.

Because grass-eaters owe their vigour to plants, the text says, their dung, urine and milk, not those of flesh-eaters, are taken as medicines; it quotes that the urines of goat, sheep, cow,…

Mare's milk (verse aśvā) is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

To remove the many kinds of shalya in the body, instruments, knives, caustics and fire are used. Surgery has eight acts, excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction,…

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed into the strained water of palasha ash and drunk against plihodara.

White hair is first smeared with a paste (kalka) of triphala and washed with triphala decoction. Then iron powder, in an amount equal to it, is ground well with the juices of champa,…

An alkali paste made from palasha ash water with turmeric, house soot, kushtha, black salt and the three pungents, said to remove kushtha.