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Oil cooked with the juices of bhringaraja and amalaki is given as nasya by the rule; gargles, soups, held liquids and smoking with suitable drug groups are also used.

Bhringaraja (markava) powder taken with cow's urine is the fourth of the four preparations said to remove kapha diseases and excessive urination.

One part sesame oil cooked with twenty parts of bhringaraja juice and a paste of haritaki is said to destroy shvasa and cough quickly.

हिन्दी: भांगरा · मराठी: माका, निष्ठामाका, दालचिनी

Sesame oil cooked with twenty parts of bhringaraja juice and a paste of haritaki is said to destroy shvasa and cough quickly, just as triphala decoction taken with ghee does.

Oil cooked with bhringaraja juice, amalaki juice, cow's milk and a paste of liquorice, given as nasal drops; it is said to destroy many diseases of the mouth.

An oil cooked from one prastha each of bhringaraja juice, amalaki juice and sesame oil, four prastha of cow's milk and a pala (16 tola) of liquorice as paste is given as nasal drops and is…

Bhringaraja juice, amalaki juice and sesame oil, one prastha each, four prastha of cow's milk and a pala of liquorice paste; it is given as nasal drops for many mouth diseases.

For the woman after delivery, yavakshara is given to drink in bhringaraja juice, or mixed with ghee and hot water.

For hoarseness, black sesame is eaten with bhringaraja leaves, followed by warm milk mixed with cow ghee and sugar.

Nili juice, bhringaraja juice and triphala decoction, one prastha (64 tola) each, and one prastha of sesame oil are mixed and kept. Pieces of the heartwood of vijayasara (asana, the hard…

Oil cooked with the juices of kasamarda, vasa and bhringaraja is said to destroy vata cough.

Bhringaraja, iron powder and triphala are taken in equal parts and powdered, and the powder is stirred into three times its quantity of triphala decoction and set aside (in a pot in a heap…

Triphala, iron calx, pyrite (sonamakhi), long pepper, vidanga and bhringaraja, which the verse says are taken in equal parts, are used as a powder; the commentary says this brings out three…

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

The flowers of shyama (the commentary: phul priyangu, with a question mark), saireyaka (katsaraiya), sahachara (yellow katsaraiya) and black madanaphala; plenty of leaves of mahanila and…

Flowers of shyama, saireyaka, sahachara and black madanaphala, leaves of mahanila and nila, shalaparni, mango kernel, arjuna bark, samudraphala, jujube, the bark of milky trees and iron…

People of pitta constitution are said to be afflicted by old age early.

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

A colour-restoring paste: bhallataka seed, chitraka, bilva pulp, bhringaraja, arka latex, orpiment and realgar, or the hides of leopard, tiger, elephant or deer, burnt, powdered and mixed…

Four preparations are given: the three pungents and rock salt in equal parts with citron juice; the reddish alkali of the mushkaka (mokha) tree; triphala in equal parts; and bhringaraja…

Ghee cooked with kantakari juice, oil cooked with the juices of kasamarda, vasa and bhringaraja, or haritaki taken with salt are each said to destroy cough born of vata.

Haritaki fried in oil and kamsa powder in equal parts, roasted iron powder equal to both and nilanjana equal to that are mixed with an equal amount of paste of bhringaraja, mallika,…