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A garland strung from bhudhara, gorakhmundi, guduchi, bilva thorns, sandal, indralata, drumstick root and indrayan root is put on a child seized by the Kinnara graha.

हिन्दी: भूधर, कर्णिका, गिरिकर्णिका · मराठी: गिरिकर्णिका, कंदविशेष

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

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

Three jujubes—the small (kola), the large (badarī) and the bush jujube (karkandhu, झाड़िया बेर)—are listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and…

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

A powder of jujube kernel and amalaki seed kernel mixed with sugar, given to eat, is called very beneficial in vomiting.

A stream of jujube decoction (sauvira, as the commentary reads it), water or milk poured over the patient is also said to help bleeding from the nose.

Alternatively, rice pudding (payasa) prepared with the roots of badara, khadira and the large karanja is to be given for sinus wounds.

हिन्दी: बेरी का पेड़, निर्जर सरसों, कपास के बीज अर्थात् बिनौले, सेव, कपास का फल, 2 तोले, एक प्रकार का बेर, बेर · मराठी: बोर, देवशिरी वृक्ष, चिरपोटाणी, रायबोर, कापसाची बी

A garland made of bhudhara, gorakhmundi, guduchi, bilva thorns, sandal, indralata, drumstick root and indrayan root is put on the child. Footnotes note the reading 'bilva thorns' in another…