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Mahua fruit is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

Having recognised this graha, the physician bathes the child in water boiled with the leaves of bitter trees and charged with many mantras.

A child seized by the Anuputana graha is bathed in water boiled with the leaves of bitter trees and charged with mantras.

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…

Kapha is calmed by holding gargles of mustard and the like, of salty, pungent, astringent and bitter drugs and of hot water; by cleaning the teeth with sticks of neem, karanja, babul and…

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…

The teeth are cleaned with sticks of neem, karanja, babul and other bitter, pungent or astringent trees and with a tooth powder of dry ginger, black pepper, long pepper and salt, which is…