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Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed into the strained water of palasha ash and drunk against plihodara.

Kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt are pounded and ground with cow urine and applied as a paste on piles.

The roots, bark and leaves of about fifty plants (arka, ankola, chitraka, white oleander, musta, the milky and astringent trees and many others) are burnt to ash; the ash is mixed with six…

Patha, asafoetida, triphala, the three pungents, parpataka, ajamoda, chitraka, rock salt, vida salt, vidanga and black salt are powdered, mixed with cow ghee and kept in a horn; used for…

A powder of asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

A powder of the three pungents, vidanga, asafoetida, vida salt, rock salt, cardamom, chitraka, black salt, devadaru, kutki and cumin, taken mixed with ghee, citron juice or buttermilk or…

A powder of the three pungents with vidanga, asafoetida, vida salt, rock salt, cardamom, chitraka, black salt, devadaru, kutki and cumin, taken in ghee, citron juice or buttermilk or with…

An alkali made from the ash of many plants cooked with six parts of cow urine, with spice and mineral powders added during cooking, used as nasya, collyrium and paste against all poisons.

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…

Oil cooked with dry ginger, shirisha seed, drumstick, devadaru, tree turmeric, karanja, apamarga, black salt, asafoetida, kanjira and cumin is given as nasya for vata lodged in the head.

An alkali paste made from palasha ash water with turmeric, house soot, kushtha, black salt and the three pungents, said to remove kushtha.

Palasha ash is stirred into water, filtered and boiled again; turmeric, house soot, kushtha, black salt and the three pungents are added and the mixture is applied, which the text says…

Pastes for piles: arka latex with orpiment and turmeric powder; snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric; pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse)…

Forty-one entries from तगर to त्वक् (दालचीनी, bark, the skin of the body). Among them are तमाल (bamboo bark, तमालपत्र, दालचीनी), तरली (a यवागू made of barley flour, liquor, कांजी), तरुणी…

Entries 71–82 of the क section, from कुलहला (गोरखमुंडी) to केतकी. They include कुलत्थ (कुलथी), कुवलय (नीलकमल), कुश, कुशा (चकोतरा), कुसुम्भ (whose flowers are said to dye cloth),…

The whole र section, entries 1–18 on PDF 750–751, from रक्तचन्दन (लाल चन्दन, with Persian-style names) to रंभा (केला). It includes रजनी and रजनीद्वय (the two turmerics), रसताल (a medicine…

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed in strained palasha-ash water, or sea salt cooked with the alkalis, are drunk and said to destroy plihodara.

In kushtha with markedly raised patches, the patches are rubbed down with a knife, samudraphena or a sharp brick and then smeared with a paste of punnaga seeds, rock salt, arka, black salt…

Sthauneyaka, devadaru, both sandalwoods, both drumsticks, guggulu, talisa, kuta, nara, kutaja, ugra (ajwain), arka, chitraka, black salt, kushtha, kutki and the three pungents are powdered,…

Three powders are given: asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt; or musta, the three pungents, ajamoda, amalaki, rock salt, patha, haritaki and…

Vata lodged in the head is to be overcome by oiling the head (oil massage and an oil-soaked pad), nasya with oil cooked with dry ginger, shirisha seed, drumstick, devadaru, tree turmeric,…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…