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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.

हिन्दी: पीपल · मराठी: पिंपळ

Milk boiled with the bark of red ashvattha is drunk. Of this and of the licorice milk given as the alternative in the same verse, the text says that even a man without virility, burning…

Milk boiled with red ashvattha bark, or milk mixed with licorice powder and sugar, is drunk; the text says even a man without virility, burning with desire, could then go to a woman seven…

Fruits of the milky trees (kṣīrī vṛkṣa)—listed in the commentary as banyan, cluster fig, pīpal's pākhar, phāras and pīpal—are among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to…

The commentary renders kapichuta as ambada, or else a kind of ashvattha.

A decoction of the roots of patala and kapichuta (ambada, or a kind of ashvattha) with shilajit and sugar added is said, when drunk, to remove gravel and stone.

Sesame, licorice, peas, ashvattha and green gram are ground well and mixed with ghee, milk and jaggery; the commentary says it is given to drink with drugs of the cooling group to calm…

Sesame, licorice, peas, ashvattha and green gram, ground well and mixed with ghee, milk and jaggery, are given with the cooling group of drugs to calm vitiated blood, followed by treatment…