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Barley, like wheat, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

Cakes (pua) made from flour of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice are to be eaten by the consumptive.

When stool is retained in gulma, cooked barley is given with milk repeatedly and in plenty.

The text says a patient with vata-type heart disease should drink ghee mixed with the salt group and barley alkali.

For patients who are obese through kushtha, prameha, udara or sinuses, with swelling, kapha disorders or excess fat, and who wish or need to become lean: a saktu of wheat, renuka seed and…

A minor disease: hard eruptions in the flesh shaped like barley grains.

Pox lesions that discharge constantly are pressed repeatedly with pastes of black gram and barley.

Sesame is described as hot, astringent, bitter and sweet (the commentary names astringent and sweet), binding (stopping fluid discharges), kindling digestion and light to digest; applied to…

Kamala is said to follow when, soon after fever, burning or pandu subside, the person takes much sour and other unwholesome food, aggravating pitta; it whitens (or yellows) the body with…

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

Wheat, like barley, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when they are unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

An enema of the decoction of jujube, barley and horse gram, with a paste of long pepper, licorice and rock salt and with old jaggery and sesame oil, called the siddha enema; the text says…

Awned barley and black sesame are dried, soaked repeatedly in goat's milk, burnt by the method of alkali making, the ash filtered with water and cooked; this alkali is applied with a probe…

Whole barley plant, patala, bilva, kantakari, whole sesame plant, palasha and bhadraka (nut grass) are burnt to ash, which is stirred into water and filtered; cinnamon, vidanga, tarumushika…

Ash of barley, patala, bilva, kantakari, sesame, palasha and nut grass is steeped in water and filtered; the alkaline water, with cinnamon, vidanga, tarumushika fruit and cardamom, is drunk…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

Sweet rice, barley and wheat foods with ghee, jaggery, abundant milk, mung soup, fruits and nourishing vegetables are given to the consumptive.

The patient is to be fed all kinds of sweet rice, barley and wheat and many foods made from them, with ghee, jaggery, plenty of milk, mung soup, strengthening fruits and agreeable…

From kapha and vata arise alaji, very hard, mouthless eruptions in the flesh with little pus, and yava (yavaprakhya), hard eruptions shaped like barley grains; from pitta arises vivrita, a…

The physician should feed the patient on priyangu, wild kodo millet, rice flour, foxtail millet, wheat and barley, with astringent, bitter and pungent things, and with pigeon pea, peas and…

For the Kinnara graha the child is bathed at a crossroads by night and by day; an offering of balls of shashtika rice and barley is made, and a homa of shali rice, kushtha and cow's ghee is…