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The footnote says chitraka root becomes purified when kept in lime water.

Purified chitraka root is boiled into a decoction; burnt shankhanabhi and pure best sugar are quickly put in, it is strained, phanita is added, and when cool the paste of all the fragrant…

Purified chitraka root is boiled by the decoction method; into the decoction pure best sugar and burnt shankhanabhi are put at once, it is quickly strained and phanita is added. When it has…

हिन्दी: चित्रक वृक्ष, रक्तचित्रक वृक्ष, भल्लातक, निंबूक, स्वर्ण, केशर, पीतवाला, पित्त, चीता वृक्ष, लाल चीता, भिलावे का वृक्ष, नींबू का झाड़, सोना · मराठी: विस्तव, चित्रक, बिबवा, रक्तचित्रक,…

हिन्दी: कुडा · मराठी: चित्रक, वृक्ष

हिन्दी: एक प्रकार का कोढ़ · मराठी: श्वेत एरण्ड, कलिंगड, अशोक, चितळ, गांजिणी, चिता, चित्रक

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

हिन्दी: चीत, चित्रक · मराठी: चित्रक

हिन्दी: चीता, भिलावा · मराठी: बिबवा, चित्रक, वृश्चिकाली, अगर, गुगुळ, कांजीचा भेद

हिन्दी: चीता वृक्ष · मराठी: चित्रक, हिंगूळ

हिन्दी: चीता वृक्ष, मेथी, शिंरिआरी, चौवतिया शाक, शुया शिंबी (वंगभाषा) · मराठी: पित्त, करडु, चित्रक, मेथिका

Chitraka root and bhallataka seeds pounded with sesame and jaggery and eaten daily; the text says even piles from all three doshas with complications subside.

One who daily eats chitraka root and bhallataka seeds pounded with sesame and jaggery is said to overcome even piles from all three doshas with complications.

It is said to destroy strong rajayakshma (kshaya), dreadful piles and all diseases; the footnote says the root is purified by keeping it in lime water.

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

As an alternative treatment of over-oleation, a gruel mixed with ajamoda, chitraka and rock salt is given.

A powder of haritaki, chitraka root and rock salt, impregnated with cow urine, is drunk repeatedly with kanji in the morning for piles.

Kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt are pounded and ground with cow urine and applied as a paste on piles.

Pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse) are pounded and ground with arka latex and applied as a paste on piles.

Chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric powder mixed in snuhi latex are applied as a paste; the text says piles subside.

A paste of tree turmeric, turmeric, the three pungents, musta and chitraka is drunk in warm water in the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea.

Pastes for piles: arka latex with orpiment and turmeric powder; snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric; pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse)…