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Food

Chora

चोर

Cora, which the commentary glosses with a query as शरीभेद, is one of the fragrant items used to perfume purified drinking water.

1 source pagenamed on 5 pagesIdentity uncertain

Glossary entry

चोर

शटी भेद

हिन्दी: शटी भेद, खुरासानी अजवान · मराठी: किरमाणी, ओवा

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Herb

Sthauneyaka (fragrant leaf drug)

थुनेर (स्थौणेयक) · स्थौणेयक

named on 2 pages

Condition

Common cold (pratishyaya)

प्रतिश्याय (जुकाम) · प्रतिश्याय

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

4 source pagesnamed on 5 pages

Herb

Dhanyaka (coriander)

धनिया (धान्यक) · धान्यक

Coriander leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

1 source pagenamed on 13 pages

Mineral

Coral (pravala)

मूंगा (प्रवाल) · प्रवाल

named on 2 pages

Procedure

Correcting a purgative that does not act

विरेचन के अयोग का प्रतिकार

When the purgative does not act or stays in the stomach, the patient drinks hot water and his back, flanks and abdomen are fomented with heated palms so that the liquefied doshas flow out.…

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Topic

Correcting an unsuitable purifying medicine

विषम औषध का प्रतिकार · विषम औषध प्रतिकार

An unsuitable purifying medicine that has gone partly up and partly down and cannot remove the remaining doshas causes great disorders: fainting, vomiting, anorexia, thirst, impure…

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Procedure

Correcting enema nozzle faults

नेत्रदोषज व्यापत्ति की चिकित्सा

An obliquely applied nozzle is straightened and applied again. When a nozzle with the ring too far, or one too long, has wounded the anus and caused bleeding, it is treated with the…

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Herb

Shankhini

यवतिक्ता · शंखिनी

named on 3 pagesIdentity uncertain

Glossary entry

शंखिनी

थोरहुली

हिन्दी: थोरहुली, पुन्नाग वृक्ष, चोरपुष्पी · मराठी: यवेची, यवतिका, यवोचि, टिटवी, सांखवेल

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