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A child afflicted by the Putana graha is made to wear red castor, white mustard, ingudi and kakavalli.

हिन्दी: अण्ड का पेड़, हस्तिकर्ण पलाशभेद, हस्तिकन्द, लाल अण्ड · मराठी: हस्तिकर्णी कांसाळु, एरंड, रक्त एरंड, हस्तिकन्द

Castor oil cooked a hundred times with milk, ginger juice and jati juice, or prepared with the juice of black shigru or of punarnava, said to destroy mahodara.

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

Eatables (confections, linctuses and the like) prepared with castor root, guduchi, gajakarni and bhallataka are eaten daily by the method stated before. The text says a man soon gains…

The patient with vata-type enlargement is purged with an unctuous purgative; castor oil mixed with milk is especially helpful; otherwise niruha and anuvasana enemas are given.

Eatables such as confections and linctuses prepared with castor root, guduchi, gajakarni and bhallataka (the commentary's reading of the verse's vira tree) are eaten daily by the stated…

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.

हिन्दी: स्वनामख्यात वृक्ष, अण्ड का पेड़ · मराठी: साधारण एरण्ड, सूर्ती एरण्ड, श्वेत एरण्ड, कडुकांकडी, मोंगळी एरण्ड, जेपाळ

हिन्दी: चीता वृक्ष, अण्डकामेड, चित्रक छाल, एरंड वृक्ष · मराठी: श्वेत एरण्ड, चिता, मुचकुन्द वृक्ष, चन्दन तिलक

Six parts of a decoction of khadira, kutaja, patha, patala, bilva, bhallataka, aragvadha, brihati, eranda, the two karanjas, barley, jujube, horse gram, vacha and chitraka are cooked with…

The editor says the Jain ācāryas also composed lexicons (koṣa) to explain such technical terms. Among those available, ācārya Amṛtanandi's lexicon is important but incomplete: it has…