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Buffalo milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

Ghee cooked with a bark decoction of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given daily to a child seized by the Shitaputana graha.

Long pepper, ghee and jaggery drunk with buffalo milk are said to destroy pitta cough quickly.

Rice, black gram, barley, shashtika rice and wheat, well roasted and ground, mixed with ghee and jaggery and given with buffalo milk, are said to destroy wasting cough.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.

In raktapitta an asthapana (decoction-type) enema is given with buffalo milk and an anuvasana enema with ghee.

The juice of kasha grass, sugarcane, kaivarta-musta and jasmine, with a paste of liquorice, old jaggery and buffalo milk, drunk after a cold bath while wearing the wet cloth, is said to…

The tops of the date, sarja, pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees, ground in banana juice with ghee and buffalo milk (curd in the commentary), or liquorice, sandalwood and sariva…

For burning of the eyes, a paste of liquorice mixed with buffalo milk, strained, cooled and combined with camphor is to be used, or the same paste with ghee or with paundra sugarcane juice.

Beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika, buffalo ear-wax, woman's milk, the paravati tree, meshashringi and borax powder is said to bring about the transfer (sankramana) of the…

In raktapitta an asthapana enema is given with buffalo milk and an anuvasana enema with ghee; a powder of blue water lily, lotus and nagakesara is drunk with cold milk and sugarcane juice.

Ghee cooked with a decoction of the bark of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given every day to the Shitaputana-seized child.

Juice of kasha grass, sugarcane, kaivarta-musta and jasmine, mixed with a paste of liquorice, old jaggery and buffalo milk, drunk after a cold bath while still wearing the wet cloth, is…

To calm raktapitta, the tops of the date, sal-resin (sarja), pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees are ground in banana juice and mixed with ghee and buffalo milk (curd, says the…

Marshy land has abundant cold water and ground that is always muddy and hard to cross; very tender grasses, shrubs and creepers; banyan, pāṭalī, pārijāta, aśoka, clove, jasmine, mango,…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

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.

Long pepper, ghee and jaggery drunk with buffalo milk, or liquorice ground in sugarcane juice, are said to destroy pitta cough quickly. A footnote gives a variant reading of the verse.

When the eyes suffer from burning, a paste of liquorice mixed with buffalo milk, strained, cooled and combined with camphor is to be used; or the same paste with ghee or with the juice of…

Rice, black gram, barley, shashtika rice and wheat are well roasted and ground, mixed with ghee and jaggery, and given with buffalo milk; this is said to destroy wasting cough.

The text says the bound, purified and perfected king of mercury (rasaraja) is transferred (sankramati) by beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung (kakavit), nalika (the commentary: a…

Cool food and drink for pitta disorders: milk, ghee, sugarcane juice, pea soup, green gram with jaggery preparations, buffalo curd, matsyakshi greens and meghanada with ghee.

Having described the bound, purified and perfected king of mercury, the text names the drugs for its transfer (sankramana): beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika (a kind of…