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Food
Bottle gourd (alabu)
लौकी (अलाबू) · अलाबू
Bottle gourd (लौकी; verse tumbī) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…
Herb
Katutumbi (bitter bottle gourd)
कड़वी तुम्बी (कटुतुम्बी) · कटुतुम्बी
The bitter bottle gourd vine (verse kaṭukikā) is named among the five vines, said to remove pitta and kapha, destroy worms, suit kuṣṭha, relieve cough, breathlessness, poisoning and fever,…
Ingredient
Five vines (panchavalli)
पंच वल्ली · पञ्चवल्ली
The vines of bitter kundru, bitter bottle gourd, mārjārapādī, (bitter) paṭola and bitter gourd are called the five vines (pañcavallī).
Topic
Formula that destroys pitta-type stone
पित्ताश्मरीनाशक योग · पित्ताश्मरी-नाशक योग
Decoctions of kasha, darbha, utkata, sugarcane root, pashanabheda, gokshura, sariva, sandalwood, shirisha, dhattura, kurantaka, shami, musta, patha, banana root, vidaraka, nagakesara, ash…
Topic
Nature of the bladder
बस्ति का स्वरूप · बस्ति-स्वरूप
The bladder (basti) is described as lying amid the waist, the sacral bone (trika), the navel and the groin, shaped like a bottle gourd with its mouth facing down. Kapha enters it together…
Topic
Plant glossary, letter section त (entries 1–41: तगर to त्वक्)
वनौषधिशब्दादर्श, त वर्ग (प्रविष्टि 1–41: तगर से त्वक्) · त
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…
Topic
Properties of gourds and other creeper fruits (heading misplaced)
लताफलों के गुण (शीर्षक भूल से दोहराया गया) · आम्रादि अम्लफल शाकगुण
Fruits of creepers—yellow pumpkin, cucumber, ash gourd, ridge gourd, bottle gourd, kundru and the like—are described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in…
Topic
Properties of the five vines
पंचवल्ली के गुण · पंचवल्ली गुण
The five vines—bitter kundru, bitter bottle gourd, mārjārapādī, (bitter) paṭola and bitter gourd—are said to remove pitta and kapha, destroy worms, suit kuṣṭha, relieve cough,…
Formulation
Shvetadi antidote
श्वेतादि अगद
A powder of ten herbs mixed in bitter gourd and chalini fruit juice and kept in a horn; the text says snakes, insects and even grahas do not enter the house where it is kept.