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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.

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…

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,…

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 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.

Curd is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

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,…

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.

The commentary prescribes the after-drink by the kind of food: sour gruel (kāñjī; the verse says sauvīra) when eating things made of pulses, buttermilk with boiled rice and the like, warm…

A paste of the three myrobalans, the three pungents, turmeric, chakramarda, aparajita, neem, karanja, bhallataka and the five salts ground with sour gruel and buttermilk, rubbed on firmly…

A fine powder of haritaki, katuki, rock salt, vacha and trikatu, drunk by the bhagandara patient in a kanji of horse gram and buttermilk or with any liquid.

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…