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Citron juice, rock salt, ghee, sesame oil, woman's milk and nili are rubbed together into a collyrium, fumigated with the three pungents and applied regularly to the eyes in vata-type…

Citron juice, rock salt, ghee, sesame oil, woman's milk and nili are rubbed together into a fine collyrium, which is fumigated with the three pungents and applied regularly to the eyes.

Dry ginger powder ground well with breast milk, ghee, oil, rock salt and citron juice makes an excellent collyrium for shushkakshipaka; nourishing the eyes (tarpana) with ghee and oil is…

Kasisa, rock salt, samudraphena and haratala are ground with sour fruit juice, bronze ash prepared by putapaka and alkali processing is added with jasmine alkali, and the mixture is made…

Long pepper, black pepper, dry ginger and drumstick seeds ground well with sour citron juice make a collyrium; constant application is said to remove pishtaka and many kapha diseases…

Cooling collyria are used to remove shukti of the eye: pearl, crystal, conch, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, sandal and sugar are ground well in goat's milk and applied as a collyrium.

Rock salt, white pepper (black pepper with its skin removed), manahshila and the tender shoots and flowers of jasmine are ground in sour fruit juice, made into a wick and dried; repeated…

Pure shilavalkala powder is mixed with a layer of lac (alaktaka) and made into a collyrium with ghee; the commentary says this collyrium is always useful for the eyes, and the verse says it…

A cooling collyrium made by powdering camphor, sandal, latakasturi, lavali, clove, kankola, nutmeg, saffron and liquorice into a wick and burning it with fragrant cow's ghee; said to be…

Conch ash or samudraphena mixed with ghee and applied as a collyrium is said to overcome arjuna.

Finely powdered conch rubbed hard with breast milk in two iron vessels and repeatedly fumigated with sugar is applied regularly as a collyrium to eyes affected by pitta disorders.

A cooling collyrium for shukti: pearl, crystal, coral, conch, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, sandal and sugar ground well in goat's milk.

A collyrium of dry ginger powder ground with breast milk, ghee, oil, rock salt and citron juice, described as excellent for shushkakshipaka.

A collyrium of ghee and jaggery, or sugar mixed with milk, is said to remove sirotpata and siraharsha.

A collyrium of fresh ginger juice, kasisa and rock salt, used to calm pariklinna vartma and all the related eye diseases.

Camphor, sandal, latakasturi, lavali, clove, kankola, nutmeg, saffron and liquorice are powdered and made into a wick, which is burnt with fragrant cow's ghee to prepare a collyrium. This…

A collyrium wick of rock salt, white pepper, manahshila and jasmine shoots and flowers ground in sour fruit juice; repeated use is said to remove itching of the eyes and all other kapha…

A collyrium of kasisa, rock salt, samudraphena and haratala ground in sour fruit juice, with bronze ash and jasmine alkali, said to destroy pariklinna vartma.

Kataka fruit and karanja fruit ground with goat's urine make a collyrium that the text calls sight-giving.

An alkali made from awned barley and black sesame soaked in goat's milk, burnt and processed by the alkali method, and applied with a probe as a collyrium in balasagrathita.

A collyrium of the powders of all major and minor mineral drugs, gems and metals, all salts, garlic and karanja, ground in a decoction of cardamom, trikatu and triphala; it is said to…

A collyrium of long pepper, black pepper, dry ginger and drumstick seeds ground in sour citron juice; constant use is said to remove pishtaka and many kapha diseases.