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Banana (verse moca) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

Varuṇa (varnā) flowers are listed among flowers said to increase vata and kapha, calm pitta and blood, and expel worms from the belly.

Banyan 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.

Putting amalaki's own juice into amalaki powder and drying it is called bhāvanā (impregnation).

Flower garlands, sandalwood paste, thin cloths soaked in water, garlands of lotus stalks, a bed of banana and lotus leaves above and below, sprays of fine cold water drops and the cool…

The tops of the date, sarja, pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees, ground in banana juice with ghee and buffalo milk (curd in the commentary), or liquorice, sandalwood and sariva…

A paste of black antimony (nilanjana), liquorice and tanduliya root, mixed with lodhra, banana and coconut water or decoction and drunk, is said to destroy asrigdara quickly.

Barks ground with thick rice water are wrapped in banana leaves and cooked by putapaka; the fragrant red juice squeezed out is cooled, mixed with liquorice paste and drunk, and is said to…

Seeing the purified mercury shining with a lustre like the sun, the physician bows to the siddhas and worships it with care, then puts into it a quarter part of suitable, very red bija…

A gulma patient should not eat the many kinds of tubers such as ratalu and pindalu, radish, meat, split pulses such as mung and masur, dried and dry vegetables, meals made with them, or…

Decoctions of kasha, darbha, utkata, sugarcane root, pashanabheda, gokshura, sariva, sandalwood, shirisha, dhattura, kurantaka, shami, musta, patha, banana root, vidaraka, nagakesara, ash…

Barks of cinnamon, aralu, kutaja, mango, kadamba and jambu are ground with thick rice water, wrapped in banana leaves, cooked by putapaka and squeezed; the cooled red juice is drunk with…

Jambu, kadamba, both nightshades, neem, banana, bimbi, lotus, blue water lily, pippalimula and prishniparni, ground in ghee, sugarcane juice and milk, are applied cold in vatarakta with…

In vatarakta with strong vata, jambu, kadamba, both nightshades, neem, banana, ivy gourd (bimbi), lotus, blue water lily, pippalimula and prishniparni are ground in ghee, sugarcane juice…

To calm raktapitta, the tops of the date, sal-resin (sarja), pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees are ground in banana juice and mixed with ghee and buffalo milk (curd, says the…

Marshy land has abundant cold water and ground that is always muddy and hard to cross; very tender grasses, shrubs and creepers; banyan, pāṭalī, pārijāta, aśoka, clove, jasmine, mango,…

Pitta is also to be cooled by wearing flower garlands, applying sandalwood paste, wearing thin cloth soaked in water, wearing garlands of lotus stalks, lying on banana and lotus leaves…

The pitta-destroying group is kunduru, neem, clove, liquorice, sahadevi, gangeran, vidari tuber, kakoli, vrishchikali, rasaunt, mahua flowers, vetiver, mango, banana, musta, hribera, lotus,…

Seventeen entries from चक्रमर्द (चकवड) to चोर (a kind of शटी, खुरासानी अजवायन). They include चणका (Marathi जवस, linseed), चन्दन, चन्द्र (कबीला, water, gold, camphor, silver, red ochre,…

The last entries of the म section, 31–59 on PDF 748–749, from मातुलुंग (बिजौरा, citron) to मांसी (जटामांसी). They include मार्कव (भांगरा), माष (उडद, also a weight of 5 to 12 ratti according…

Fruits of grapes, banana (moca), mahua, gambhārī (kumbher), dates (named in the verse), water chestnut, coconut, jackfruit, hintāla and palmyra are said to be heavy to digest, to produce…

Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd…

In the seventh month of pregnancy a dose of ghee cooked with the decoction of licorice, lotus, hribera, neem, banana, kadamba bark and jambu, and with curd and milk, is drunk daily to calm…