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Dravaṇikā, not further explained, is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

हिन्दी: वृक्षविशेष · मराठी: वृक्षविशेष

The text says pravahika arises when a very unctuous or very dry person who has taken a purgative strains forcibly because stool does not come, or holds back the urge of stool that is coming.

Ajwain (the commentary's gloss for the verse word karabī) is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

The juice of shravanika, which the commentary names gorakhmundi, is one of five plant juices said always to make mercury pass into the kinds of metal.

Named in the Suvarchikadi powder; the commentary repeats the name as shravani without a gloss.

हिन्दी: मूसाकानी · मराठी: बृहद्रन्ती, लघु उन्दीरकानी, उन्दीरमारी

Śārṅgeṣṭā (baḍī karañj), paṭola, jalakācarī, makoy, mālkāṅgnī, maṇḍūkī (brāhmī), saptalā (a kind of thūhar), dravaṇikā, guḍūcī, putriṇī (vandā), neem, chirāyatā, jhārasī and white punarnavā…