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For kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines.

Bṛhatī (baḍī kaṭelī) is named among the five bṛhatīs, said to suit kapha disorders, remove kuṣṭha, destroy worms, counter poison and always suit fever.

हिन्दी: बृहती, कटेहरी, कटाई · मराठी: डोरली, गुल्थोटि

Brihati, running from the roots of the breasts to the spine, kills through bleeding when struck; amsaphalaka, in the upper back bound to the trika, makes the arms wither or go numb.

Brihati, two marmas running straight from the roots of the breasts to both sides of the spine in the back; a blow there causes bleeding and death.

हिन्दी: छोटी कटेली, बड़ी कटेली · मराठी: थोर डोरली, लहान डोरली

Kaṭeharī, mañjiṣṭhā, adhomāninī, baḍī kaṭelī and white arka are called the five bṛhatīs.

The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).

A wick coated with the liquid of house soot, blue lotus, kushtha, pippali, rock salt and brihati fruit; inserted during uttara basti, it is said to make the fluid come out easily at once.

The child is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha, or with warm kanji; massaged with oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu,…

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

A child seized by the Rakshasa graha is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha; warm kanji may also be used for bathing.

Six parts of a decoction of khadira, kutaja, patha, patala, bilva, bhallataka, aragvadha, brihati, eranda, the two karanjas, barley, jujube, horse gram, vacha and chitraka are cooked with…

After purification, a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white punarnava, the three pungents, brihati, nirgundi and arka is drunk with the alkali water of shirisha, musta, rava, apamarga…

Nineteen marmas (eight neck vessels, guda, hridaya, basti, nabhi, adhipati, two shankha and four shringataka) kill at once; twenty-nine (eight of the chest, four talahridaya, four…

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

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.

White punarnava, brihati, guduchi, linseed (verse only), castor, liquorice, drumstick, sesame and ikshura, ground with alkali and cow's urine into a lukewarm paste, are applied in vatarakta…

In vatarakta with strong kapha, white punarnava, brihati, guduchi, castor, liquorice, drumstick, sesame and ikshura (gokshura in the commentary), with linseed in the verse, are ground with…

Aparajita, budharakarnika, apamarga, shleshmataka, katphala, kantakari, meghaninadika (the commentary: palasha), brihati, ankola and nili are powdered, mixed in the juice of bitter gourd…

In kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines such as cow and goat urine.

Those bitten by rats are given emesis and purgation according to the provoked dosha with aragvadha, madanaphala, ankola and koshataki; afterwards a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white…