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Sitopaladi churna.

A powder of twelve drugs headed by mango seed kernel, drunk with whey, is said to settle diarrhoea in the pakva stage.

Amalaki fruit is cooked with goat's milk, dried, powdered and eaten mixed with plenty of sugar. Alternatively the roots of uccaṭā (the commentary: चिंचोकतृण, उटंगण) and gokshura are taken,…

Bhūkūṣmāṇḍa (the commentary: जमीनकद्दू, विदारीकंद), seeds of ikṣura (तालमखाना), seeds of guptā (कौंच) and the root of musalī (तालमूली) are powdered and given with goat's milk to drink at…

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

Bharangi powder with dry ginger and salt, mixed with clean oil, is called beneficial for shvasa.

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.

A powder of juicy pomegranate seeds, cumin, dry ginger, long pepper and salt, taken daily in sour gruel, is said to remove even severe mutrakricchra and its pain.

Powders of cardamom, clove, nut grass, sandalwood, nagakesara, puffed rice, kana (cumin according to the commentary) and amla, drunk with jaggery water, are given after purification by…

Six aromatic and pungent drugs in rising parts from one to six, powdered with an equal weight of sugar, said to destroy kapha and many diseases including raktapitta, pandu, consumption,…

A fine powder of haritaki, katuki, rock salt, vacha and trikatu, drunk by the bhagandara patient in a kanji of horse gram and buttermilk or with any liquid.

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.

Kokilaksha seeds, long pepper, kapikacchu seeds and licorice are powdered, licked with ghee and sugar and followed by milk; the text says this overcomes all urinary diseases.

A powder of the three pungents, vidanga, asafoetida, vida salt, rock salt, cardamom, chitraka, black salt, devadaru, kutki and cumin, taken mixed with ghee, citron juice or buttermilk or…

Khadira heartwood powder impregnated with khadira juice, dried and drunk with khadira decoction, called an excellent medicine for kushtha.

After emesis with neem decoction, a powder of equal parts of khadira, kutaja, patha, patola leaf, turmeric and the three pungents is taken daily with warm water for kushtha, piles, kitaka…

A powder of nine drugs with an equal amount of iron, taken with sugar and ghee, said to relieve pandu, prameha, piles, severe kushtha, sinuses and worm disease.

Powder of neem seed kernel with vidanga, bhallataka seed and the two turmerics, combined with neem seed oil, is said to destroy all kinds of kushtha.

A powder of equal parts of pippali, rock salt, chitraka and yavakshara, licked daily with shigru juice for liver and spleen udara.

A powder of sarjika alkali, rock salt, asafoetida, cumin, both karanjas, shravani and trikatu taken with milk; it is said to make the scrotum firm like an elephant's.

A powder of cinnamon, the three pungents, the three fruits, bharangi and nrityakandaka fruit, licked with sugar and ghee, is said to remove long-standing shvasa quickly.

Cinnamon, cardamom, long pepper, vamshalochana and white sugar, each double the one before, powdered and mixed, are eaten for raktapitta, consumption, thirst, breathlessness, hiccup, fever,…