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Fresh butter (navanīta, loṇī) is described as cold, sour and also sweet, very aphrodisiac, kapha-producing, and removing pitta and vata disorders.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

Buttermilk kept in a clean new pot lined inside with finely ground chitraka is taken daily; the text says all kinds of piles subside.

The piles patient is given no food but only very sour buttermilk to drink; alternatively, water prepared with ginger, kutaja, chitraka and punarnava, or milk cooked with these drugs.

Buttermilk mixed with rock salt and dry ginger is named as wholesome food in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever.

The piles patient is given no food but only very sour buttermilk; or he is given water prepared with ginger, kutaja (कूट in the commentary), chitraka and punarnava, or milk cooked with…

A clean new pot is lined inside with finely ground chitraka; buttermilk kept in this pot and taken daily is said to calm all kinds of piles.

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

Khala is buttermilk cooked well with pepper and other pungent substances and tempered with ghee or similar fat, made fragrant; it is said to remove kapha and vata disorders, kindle…

Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…

Ambashthika, a juicy pomegranate and tinduka cooked in buttermilk and drunk are said to relieve diarrhoea at once.

Oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu, sarala and shatahva, together with kanji, sour curd and buttermilk, is massaged on a child seized by the Rakshasa…

A paste of the drugs of the previous verse (patala and the others) is given to the piles patient to drink with curd whey and sour buttermilk, or with alkali water.

Very sour buttermilk mixed with black pepper, rock salt, dry ginger and asafoetida is drunk in the ama stage of vata diarrhoea.

Wine and water show black streaks, curd turns white with a slight yellow tinge, and milk and buttermilk show red streaks.

Buttermilk is described as light, hot, sour, astringent and dry, kindling digestion and destroying kapha; it is also said to provoke pitta and vata (the line begins with the word शुक्लं,…

Fresh butter is described as cold, sour and sweet, strongly aphrodisiac, kapha-producing and removing pitta and vata disorders; it is said to be wholesome for those wasted by consumption or…

Poison in wine or water shows as black streaks; poisoned curd turns white with a slight yellow tinge; poisoned milk and buttermilk show red streaks.

The sticky juice of palasha seeds is said to kill mercury quickly.

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 opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

A purgative ghee from butter churned out of curd set from cow milk boiled with snuhi latex, cooked again with snuhi latex; drunk for half a month or a month, it is called the best of ghees…

Curd is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.