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Urine is said to be of eight kinds, from eight animals: cow, goat, buffalo, horse, donkey, camel, elephant and ram.

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.

An alternative paste of bakuchi, rock salt, bhushirisha, kushtha, karavira, the three pungents and chitraka ground in cow urine.

A decoction of kharabhusha (kharbuja in the commentary) prepared with cow urine is drunk for piles.

Kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt are pounded and ground with cow urine and applied as a paste on piles.

A paste of rock salt, chakramarda, kushtha, chitraka and the three pungents ground in cow urine, given among the kushtha treatments.

Jaggery, haritaki, cow urine and iron ash are cooked together and the decoction is given in kamala.

Astringent preparations (kashaya) and cow's urine together with jasmine flowers and sprouts are said always to remove all diseases of the mouth.

Kamala is said to follow when, soon after fever, burning or pandu subside, the person takes much sour and other unwholesome food, aggravating pitta; it whitens (or yellows) the body with…

After purgation the prameha patient is given a niruha (decoction) enema prepared from niruhana drugs mixed with cow urine and sesame oil, and is then fed on the prescribed foods.

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru is given to the mahodara patient to drink, who is then purged with tilvaka ghee and given a decoction enema with…

A powder of haritaki, chitraka root and rock salt, impregnated with cow urine, is drunk repeatedly with kanji in the morning for piles.

A comfortably warm enema of the decoction and paste of aragvadha, kutaja, the three pungents and vacha, mixed with alkaline water, cow urine and the salts beginning with rock salt, said to…

An alkali made from the ash of many plants cooked with six parts of cow urine, with spice and mineral powders added during cooking, used as nasya, collyrium and paste against all poisons.

For patients who are obese through kushtha, prameha, udara or sinuses, with swelling, kapha disorders or excess fat, and who wish or need to become lean: a saktu of wheat, renuka seed and…

A suppository of purifying drugs, pungent drugs and salts ground with cow urine and snuhi latex, placed in the anus against udara.

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 enema of triphala decoction with pungent drugs, alkali and cow urine, a paste of drugs of the ushakadi group and the salt group, called the scraping enema because the text says it…

A suppository of purifying drugs, mustard, rock salt, alkalis and the three pungents ground with cow urine and sour substances, placed in the anus in mahodara.

White trivrit, licorice and vajrakshara are ground with cow urine and given as nasya in apasmara.

Two remedies for piles: a powder of haritaki, chitraka root and rock salt, impregnated with cow urine, drunk repeatedly with kanji in the morning; or a decoction of kharabhusha (kharbuja in…

The roots, bark and leaves of about fifty plants (arka, ankola, chitraka, white oleander, musta, the milky and astringent trees and many others) are burnt to ash; the ash is mixed with six…

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…