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Cow horn opens the list of materials for the fumigation against graha fever.

Graha affliction is described as seizure by spirit beings (vyantaras and grahas), who the text says trouble people from enmity, for play or wishing to kill, and enter those who neglect…

Fumigation with cow horn (named in the verse), asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, good dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is…

A fumigation of cow horn, asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is said to destroy graha fever…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

The text calls faulty the one-sided views of those who see substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect as separate: if taste, potency and vipaka were different from the substance…

Patha, asafoetida, triphala, the three pungents, parpataka, ajamoda, chitraka, rock salt, vida salt, vidanga and black salt are powdered, mixed with cow ghee and kept in a horn; used for…

Various alkalis, cow urine, salts, the three pungents, all aromatic substances and all kinds of flowers, dried and powdered, are mixed with ghee and jaggery into the preceding alkali…

An addition to the alkali antidote: alkalis, cow urine, salts, the three pungents, aromatic substances and dried flowers are powdered and mixed in with ghee and jaggery, stored in a cow's…

An antidote powder of eleven drugs mixed with cow ghee and kept in a horn, used for nasya, collyrium, paste and other uses against all poisons.

Sthauneyaka, devadaru, both sandalwoods, both drumsticks, guggulu, talisa, kuta, nara, kutaja, ugra (ajwain), arka, chitraka, black salt, kushtha, kutki and the three pungents are powdered,…

An antidote powder of seventeen drugs mixed with panchagavya and kept in a cow's horn, said to overcome all poisons.

The gochandana has its underside divided in two like a cow's horns or testicles, is always moist, thick-mouthed and fiercely poisonous. Bites of poisonous leeches cause severe swelling,…