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Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Cow milk with jaggery is said to be beneficial in pandu and kamala.

Lukewarm cow milk mixed with camphor, said to relieve liver and spleen enlargement, distension and mahodara.

After stopping an excessive flow of blood, the patient is given cow's milk that has been boiled and cooled, at once and daily; complications are treated, and a little food prepared with…

Kapittha, shali rice, khas and hribera; or peas, kaleyaka and jasmine leaves; or sesame and dark sandal, ground in milk and mixed with cow's ghee, are applied to make the skin its normal…

The root of a single juicy nili plant, ground well and mixed with the milk of a black cow, is drunk in darkness at night on the day when the sun and moon are in conjunction; the text says…

Ghee mixed with sugar is put into a milking pail and cow's milk is milked into it fresh and warm (dharoshna); a dry person who drinks it is said to lose his dryness at once and become…

Castor oil mixed with rock salt and dry ginger powder is licked, and lukewarm cow milk is drunk, to destroy all udaras.

A lukewarm decoction enema of cow urine, cow milk, the three pungents, triphala and other enema drugs for kapha-type udara, with kapha-relieving poultices.

A fragrant ghee cooked with a paste of fifteen herbs, cow milk and jaggery; the text says taking it daily makes a man virile, increases strength and lifespan and keeps him free of disease,…

A purgative ghee from butter churned out of curd set from cow milk boiled with snuhi latex, cooked again with snuhi latex; drunk for half a month or a month, it is called the best of ghees…

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Kapikacchu seeds, bala, atibala, licorice, kokilaksha, gokshura, shatavari, prabhu (?), lotus stalk, kaseru, blue lotus, lotus, jatiphala, shalaparni and prishniparni in equal parts are…

Cow milk four times the snuhi latex is boiled with it, set into curd with buttermilk and churned; the butter is cooked again with snuhi latex. It is drunk for half a month or a month.

Intermittent fevers (ekantara, santata, satata, anyedyushka, tritiyaka, chaturthaka and others) are treated with dosha-specific medicines and preparations made from them; for those with…

Cow milk four times the amount of snuhi latex is boiled, set into curd with buttermilk and churned; the butter taken out is cooked again with snuhi latex. This naracha ghee, called the best…

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.

Vidanga, triphala, nut grass, trikatu, chitraka, amalaki and ajamoda are finely powdered, soaked in ghee and jaggery and cooked with a decoction of the shala-sara group of trees until thick…

The kapha-type udara patient is oleated with ghee and oil cooked with bitter, astringent and drying drugs, the three pungents and alkalis, then purged with snuhi latex; decoction enemas of…

After the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (liver) or left arm (spleen) is pierced while the spleen is pressed; lukewarm cow milk with camphor is…

The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.

Castor oil mixed with rock salt and dry ginger powder is licked and lukewarm cow milk is drunk; this is said to destroy all udaras.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…