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Sandalwood fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Sandal, agaru, tamala leaf, talisa, kushtha and khadira with hair, body hair, nails and human bone are powdered, mixed with ghee and used to fumigate the child at both twilights.

For an even burn the text says to smear ghee repeatedly and then apply a paste of sandalwood, bark of latex-bearing trees, sesame, liquorice and rice, ground in milk or sugarcane juice or…

Cooked vegetables of astringent, bitter and sweet taste and cooling potency are given, and for thirst a measured amount of wholesome water scented with sandalwood, fragrant flowers and…

हिन्दी: काली अगर · मराठी: चन्दन, सुवास, गंधक, रक्तबोळ, क्षुद्ररोग, घ्राणविषय, शेवगा

हिन्दी: हरिचंदन · मराठी: चन्दन

हिन्दी: चन्दन का पेड़ · मराठी: साधारण चन्दन, सुकड

हिन्दी: चंदन, कालावाला, अभायू · मराठी: चन्दन, भोरडच्या, काळा वाळा, थंडी

हिन्दी: पुष्पकसीस, पत्थर का फूल, सफेद चंदन, पद्माख, मोती, खस · मराठी: पद्मकाष्ठ, मोती, चंदन, राळ, पीतवाळा, सोनचांफा, मसेनी कापुर

A decoction of sandalwood, indra, asana, tinduka, the five milky trees and triphala, mixed with a paste of nut grass, is drunk to remove pitta-type prameha.

A decoction of sandalwood, indra, asana, tinduka, the group of milky trees and the three fruits, mixed with a paste of nut grass and drunk, is said to remove pitta-type prameha; the…

The gochandana has its underside divided in two like a cow's horns or testicles, is always moist, thick-mouthed and fiercely poisonous. Bites of poisonous leeches cause severe swelling,…

हिन्दी: चीता वृक्ष, अण्डकामेड, चित्रक छाल, एरंड वृक्ष · मराठी: श्वेत एरण्ड, चिता, मुचकुन्द वृक्ष, चन्दन तिलक

The commentary adds bathing the raktapitta patient with a decoction of red sandalwood, nut grass and vetiver.

Red sandal rubbed down slowly with sour gruel, water, ghee, oil, sour fruit juice and buttermilk and applied as a collyrium is said to be very beneficial for the eyes.

Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

Fruits of piṇḍītaka, glossed 'madana tree, a kind of tulasī', are listed among fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly…

Wounds needing stitches are sewn with a straight or curved needle. Many wounds at the uru-shira and abdomen are smeared with excellent ghee prepared with joining drugs, brought together,…

हिन्दी: बेर, कांजी, काला सुरमा, सफेद सुरमा, सौवीर कांजी · मराठी: बोर, जवाची पेज करून आंबवितात ते कांजी, काळा सुरमा, स्रोतोंजन, संधान, गव्हाचें कांजी, रायबोर

Leeches are called jalaukas because water is their home (oka) and jalayuka because water is their life (ayu); they are also called jaluka, words that grammarians derive by the prishodaradi…

Leeches are called jalaukas because water is their home and jalayuka because water is their life, and also jaluka. There are twelve kinds: six poisonous and very painful, krishna, karbura,…