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A lukewarm decoction of bilva, agnimantha, both nightshades and patala is drunk to digest vata fever.

Milk cooked with water boiled with the roots of bilva, agnimantha, the two brihatis and tuntuka, given warm with ghee, is said to remove strong vata vomiting.

Bael fruit heads a list of fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

A paste of seventeen drugs headed by bael, including realgar and both kinds of arka, applied for swellings from strong kapha and vata and for vata and kapha diseases.

A paste of bael, chitraka, pippalimula, renuka seed, mahashravani and gorakhmundi, realgar, shigru root, agnimantha, both kinds of arka, vacha, the three pungents, turmeric, mustard, onion…

A child seized by the Shitaputana graha is always bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka.

Fruit of śailabilva (mountain bael) is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

A child seized by the Pishacha graha is bathed well with water boiled with kuberaksha (patala), arka, bamboo, gandharvahasta, aragvadha and bilva.

A child seized by the Kimpurusha graha is bathed in water boiled with shirisha, tulsi and bilva.

Fruits of bael, aśmantaka (glossed pāṣāṇabheda), mountain bael, karabī (glossed ajwain), gaṅgeran, the milky trees (banyan, cluster fig, pākhar, phāras and pīpal), jāmun, toraṇa, tendū,…

हिन्दी: हींगपत्री · मराठी: बेल

Marking nut (bhilāvā; verse āruṣkara) fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Tilvaka, rendered lodh in the commentary, is counted among the latex (milk) poisons.

हिन्दी: चीता, भिलावा · मराठी: बिबवा, चित्रक, वृश्चिकाली, अगर, गुगुळ, कांजीचा भेद

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…

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…

Having given formulas for all vata and kapha poisons, the text now gives very cooling ones for pitta poisons: sariva, jatamamsi, raisins, clove, cinnamon, shyama, somalata, shallaki,…

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,…

The child is bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka, and anointed with sesame oil cooked with the group of urines (eight kinds, of the cow and others),…

The child is bathed well with water boiled with kuberaksha (patala), arka, bamboo, gandharvahasta, aragvadha and bilva, and then anointed with oil cooked with vata-removing drugs.

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…

For digesting (pachana) vata fever a lukewarm decoction of bilva, agnimantha, both nightshades and patala is drunk; for pitta fever a cold decoction of kasha grass, sugarcane root,…