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Formulation
Nasya ghee of durva, hribera and guduchi (unnamed)
दूब, नेत्रबाला, गिलोय से सिद्ध नस्य घृत
Ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, given as nasya, is said to stop bleeding from the nose quickly.
Herb
Durva (Bermuda grass)
दूब (दूर्वा) · दूर्वा
Glossary entry
कृष्णा
नीलका वृक्ष
हिन्दी: नीलका वृक्ष, पीपल, वायची, जटामांसी, कालाजीरा, पद्मावती, दाख, नीली, सोंठ, कंभारी, कुटकी, श्यामलता, कालीसर, राई, काकोली, जौंक · मराठी: पापडी, कटुकी, शाहजिरें, लघु नीली, काळी तुळस,…
Glossary entry
दूर्वा
दूब घास
हिन्दी: दूब घास · मराठी: नील दूर्वा, कापूरकाचरी
Glossary entry
हरिताल
हरताल
हिन्दी: हरताल · मराठी: हरताळ, दूर्वा
Topic
People who are hard to purge
कठिनाई से विरेचन होने वाले मनुष्य · दुर्विरेच्य मनुष्य
People who habitually suppress the urge to pass stool are hard to purge: those around the king and servants (from fear), women (from shyness), merchants (from greed), the sensual and others…
Herb
Murva
मूर्वा (मरोड़फली) · मूर्वा
Formulation
Decoction of murva and others for sannipata fever (unnamed)
सन्निपात ज्वर क्वाथ (मूर्वादि)
A decoction of murva, guduchi, nut grass, bibhitaki and kutki is drunk in sannipata fever.
Glossary entry
मूर्वा
चुरनहार
हिन्दी: चुरनहार, मरोरफली · मराठी: मोरवेल
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Principle
Prakriti (body constitution)
प्रकृति (शरीर प्रकृति) · प्रकृति
The introduction says prakṛti means keeping the body in its original state. The bīja dhātu is formed by the union of śukra (the male seed) and ārtava (the female seed), and the body is…
Topic
Ghee and oil against graha disease
ग्रहरोगनाशक घृत-तैल · ग्रहामयघ्न घृत-तैल
Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…
Topic
Herbal garland against the Kinnara graha
किन्नर ग्रह में माला धारण · किन्नरग्रहघ्न माल्यधारण
A garland made of bhudhara, gorakhmundi, guduchi, bilva thorns, sandal, indralata, drumstick root and indrayan root is put on the child. Footnotes note the reading 'bilva thorns' in another…
Topic
Marks of a person of kapha constitution
कफ प्रकृति के मनुष्य के लक्षण · कफप्रकृति के मनुष्य का लक्षण
A person of kapha constitution is described as very intelligent, stout and cheerful, dark like young dūrvā grass (the commentary says darbha shoots), grateful but slow to give up enmity,…
Formulation
Mustadi paste
मुस्तादिलेप · मुस्तादि लेप
A paste of nut grass, chironji, liquorice, mango bark, shalaparni, priyangu, durva, lotus, white lotus, shatavari, chirata, red sandalwood, kaseru, kushtha and tree turmeric is applied in…
Topic
Mustadi paste
मुस्तादि लेप
In vatarakta from all three doshas a paste is applied of nut grass, chironji, liquorice, mango bark, shalaparni, priyangu, durva, lotus, white lotus, shatavari, chirata, red sandalwood,…
Topic
Nasya for bleeding from the nose
नाक से बहते रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग · घ्राणप्रवृत्त रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग
For bleeding from the nose the commentary gives as nasya ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, or ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of…