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Food
Castor oil (eranda taila)
अरंडी का तेल (एरण्ड तैल) · एरण्डतैल
Formulation
Castor oil cooked a hundred times
सौ बार पकाया एरंड तैल
Castor oil cooked a hundred times with milk, ginger juice and jati juice, or prepared with the juice of black shigru or of punarnava, said to destroy mahodara.
Remedy
Castor oil with rock salt and dry ginger
सैंधव-शुण्ठी युक्त एरंड तेल
Castor oil mixed with rock salt and dry ginger powder is licked, and lukewarm cow milk is drunk, to destroy all udaras.
Remedy
Bala oil or castor oil for intestinal enlargement
अन्त्रवृद्धि में बलातैल या एरण्ड तैल · अन्त्रवृद्धि में बलातैल
After the intestinal enlargement has been declared incurable, bala oil or castor oil with rock salt is given to drink as part of vata-reducing treatment.
Topic
Use of castor oil
एरंड तेल प्रयोग · एरण्ड तैल प्रयोग
Castor oil mixed with rock salt and dry ginger powder is licked and lukewarm cow milk is drunk; this is said to destroy all udaras.
Remedy
Purgation for vata-type scrotal enlargement
वातज अण्डवृद्धि में विरेचन · वातवृद्धि विरेचन
The patient with vata-type enlargement is purged with an unctuous purgative; castor oil mixed with milk is especially helpful; otherwise niruha and anuvasana enemas are given.
Formulation
Purgative powder of turpeth, three pungents and rock salt (unnamed)
निसोत, त्रिकटु, सैंधा नमक का विरेचक चूर्ण
Powder of turpeth, the three pungents and rock salt, drunk with castor oil or ghee, is said to purge and remove vata lodged in the colon.
Topic
Preparation that destroys udara
उदरनाशक योग
Castor oil cooked a hundred times with milk, ginger juice and jati juice, or prepared with the juice of black shigru or of punarnava, is said to destroy mahodara.
Procedure
Purification in ripened vata and pitta fever
पक्व ज्वर में शोधन
After the fever has ripened, a painful vata fever is treated with unctuous purgation, such as castor oil, or a decoction enema, and a pitta fever with cool emesis or purgation, each as…
Topic
Treatment of intestinal enlargement
अन्त्रवृद्धि की चिकित्सा · अन्त्रवृद्धि-चिकित्सा
Intestinal enlargement is to be declared incurable from the start; then vata-reducing treatment is tried with great effort, and bala oil (described in the childbirth section, says a…
Topic
Treatment of ripened vata and pitta fever
पक्व वात और पित्त ज्वर की चिकित्सा · वात व पित्त पक्व ज्वर चिकित्सा
Once the fever has ripened, a painful vata fever is treated as suitable with unctuous purgatives (castor oil and the like) or with a decoction enema (niruha), and a pitta fever with cool…
Topic
Treatment of vata-type enlargement
वातज वृद्धि की चिकित्सा · वातवृद्धि-चिकित्सा
A patient with vata-type enlargement is purged with an unctuous purgative; castor oil mixed with milk is especially helpful, or niruha and anuvasana enemas are given.
Topic
Vata-destroying purgative combinations
वातनाशक विरेचक योग
Three purgative combinations for vata in the colon: turpeth, the three pungents and rock salt powdered and taken with castor oil or ghee; a paste of dry ginger, haritaki and rock salt with…
Formulation
Colic-destroying enema
शूलघ्न बस्ति
A paste of devadaru, shatapushpa, rasna, asafoetida and rock salt, with jaggery, sesame (oil) and castor-root decoction, given as an enema; the text says it destroys severe colic and calls…
Topic
Colic-destroying enema
शूलघ्न बस्ति
A paste of devadaru, shatapushpa, rasna, asafoetida and rock salt with jaggery, sesame (oil) and castor-root decoction, given as an enema, is said to destroy severe colic; it is called the…
Formulation
Enema mixture (unnamed)
बस्ति के लिए औषधि
An enema fluid of oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and cow's urine, churned with a fine paste of seventeen drugs (one…
Question
For whom is the jaggery-and-oil (gudatailika) enema meant, and how is it made?
गुडतैलिक बस्ति किनके लिए है और कैसे बनती है?
For kings, wealthy men, the very old, children, delicate persons and women who cannot bear the usual enemas; jaggery and oil in equal measure are combined with castor-root decoction.
Topic
Jaggery-and-oil enema
गुडतैलिक बस्ति
A niruha in which jaggery and oil are put in equal measure is called gudatailika; combined with a decoction of castor root it is said to remove all severe doshas. A footnote says the…
Formulation
Jaggery-and-oil enema (gudatailika basti)
गुडतैलिक बस्ति · गौडतैलिक बस्ति
A niruha in which jaggery and sesame oil are taken in equal measure and combined with a decoction of castor root; the text says it removes all severe doshas. It is introduced for kings,…
Formulation
Mahaushadhadi decoction
महैषधादि क्वाथ · महौषधादि क्वाथ
A decoction of dry ginger, the three myrobalans, agnimantha, both nightshades, castor root, devadaru, patala, citron and bilva is used to prepare ghee, sour items, curd, buttermilk, milk,…
Topic
Mahaushadhadi decoction and its use in food and drink
महौषधादि क्वाथ और अनुपान · महौषधादि क्वाथ व अनुपान
A decoction of dry ginger, the three myrobalans, agnimantha, both nightshades, castor root, devadaru, patala, citron and bilva is used to prepare ghee, sour items, curd, buttermilk, milk,…
Topic
Maurvyadi collyrium
मौर्व्यादि अंजन · मौर्व्याद्यंजन
Old brick (the commentary also allows castor) impregnated with the juices of maurvi, vajri and kumari is rubbed hard in two dirty bronze vessels and mixed with oil, ghee and lamp-black;…
Topic
Medicines for the enema
बस्ति के लिए औषधि
For the enema, oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji are mixed in due measure with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and with cow's urine and churned; a fine paste…
Topic
Oil and ghee that destroy bhagandara
भगंदरनाशक तैल और घृत · भगंदरघ्न तैल व घृत
Oil or ghee, or both, cooked with the paste and decoction of sesame, danti, trivrit, indravaruni, shatavari (as glossed), kushtha, karavira, turmeric, kanjira, karanja, langali root, arka,…