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

The patient drinks ghee mixed with the salt group and barley alkali; trikatu, asafoetida, ajamoda and rock salt are also given with sour fruit juices or with milk.

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…

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…

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

An alkali made from awned barley and black sesame soaked in goat's milk, burnt and processed by the alkali method, and applied with a probe as a collyrium in balasagrathita.

A strong patient is prepared with oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and the like, fed a small light, unctuous, warm meal, and on a clear, mild day in a secluded place laid in an…

After preparatory oleation, sudation, emesis and purgation and a light meal, the patient is laid in an attendant's lap with the anus towards the sun, bound and held; the ghee-smeared…