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Cavya (cāv) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse impurities and be sharp.

हिन्दी: बेर, एक तोला, मिरच, शीतल चीनी, चव्या · मराठी: रानडुकर, कंकोळ, बोर, मिरी, चवक, अंकोल, गजपिंपळी, रायबोर, कोरक, कळी, नख

हिन्दी: चव्य, कार्पासी, चविका, वच · मराठी: चवक, गजपिंपळी, गजपिंपळीचे मूळ, कापूस, गुंजा

A powder of trikatu, nut grass, chavya and vidanga, mixed well with ghee and jaggery and licked in the morning, is said to destroy consumption.

हिन्दी: वनमूंग, मोंठ, पित्तपापडा, चीनाधान · मराठी: पित्तपापडा, वव्या, रानमूग, शरपर्णिका

About twenty drugs, among them mahanimba, kutaja, arka, snuhi, apamarga, chitraka, palasha, shigru, both nightshades, vasa, patala, bilva, both karanjas, chavya, bhallataka and vaijayanti,…

A powder of asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…

Ghee cooked with dung juice of goat, horse and cow, decoctions of guduchi, khadira, murva and chavya, and milk, with a paste of rasna, trikatu and licorice, is licked and said to calm…

Dung juice of goat, horse and cow, decoctions of guduchi, khadira, murva and chavya, milk and ghee, one part each (nine parts), are cooked with a paste of rasna, trikatu and licorice;…

A ghee cooked with a decoction of sixteen drugs, snuhi latex and a paste of haritaki, sea salt or devadaru and chavya is said to cure consumption, abdominal enlargement, all urinary…

Six parts of a decoction of khadira, kutaja, patha, patala, bilva, bhallataka, aragvadha, brihati, eranda, the two karanjas, barley, jujube, horse gram, vacha and chitraka are cooked with…

Naracha ghee is cooked again with a decoction of trivrit, danti, triphala and shankhini and a paste of aragvadha pulp, snuhi latex, chitraka, vidanga, chavya, turmeric and the three…

The decoction described above (of ginger, kutaja, chitraka and punarnava) is boiled down into a phanitaka, a paste of chitraka, trikatu, cumin, ajwain, pippalimula and chavya is added, and…

A powder of the three pungents, nut grass, chavya and vidanga, mixed with ghee and jaggery, is licked on rising in the morning; or raisins and long pepper are taken with ghee and jaggery…

The decoction described above is boiled down into a phanitaka, a paste of chitraka, trikatu, cumin, ajwain, pippalimula and chavya is added, and the piles patient eats it daily.

Three powders are given: asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt; or musta, the three pungents, ajamoda, amalaki, rock salt, patha, haritaki and…