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Garlic (लहसन in the commentary, apparently for the verse word anilaghnī) is listed among tubers said to be tasty, nourishing, poison-countering and wholesome in vata disorders.

Alternatively, in kapha-dominant ear disease, goat urine mixed with garlic, arka juice and rock salt is warmed a little and filled into the ear; the commentary says this calms ear disease…

Goat urine, garlic and arka juice are mixed, warmed and filled into the ear, and held for a hundred, five hundred or a thousand matra; the earache is said to subside.

Pīlu, fresh ginger, drumstick root, garlic, onion, black pepper, cardamom, long-pepper root, kulahala and karīra are described as hot and sharp, especially removing kapha and vata, kindling…

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Eye diseases arise from the doshas lodged in the eye through plunging into water when overheated, keeping a fixed posture, change of seasons, sweat or much walking, excess intercourse, loss…

Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…

Ghee with an equal part of oil is cooked with decoction and paste of kemuka, ankola fruit, ginger juice, jatamamsi, shigru juice, devadaru, bamboo bark, garlic, asafoetida, rock salt, the…

Ghee and an equal amount of oil are cooked with the decoction and paste of kemuka, ankola fruit, ginger juice, jatamamsi, shigru juice, devadaru, bamboo bark, garlic, asafoetida, rock salt…

A collyrium of the powders of all major and minor mineral drugs, gems and metals, all salts, garlic and karanja, ground in a decoction of cardamom, trikatu and triphala; it is said to…

Powders (ashes) of all the major and minor mineral drugs, gems and metals, all salts, garlic and karanja, ground with a decoction of cardamom, the three pungents and the three fruits, make…

The first thirty numbered entries of the म section (no entry is numbered 15), from मगधोद्भवा (पीपल) to माणकी (a weight of 64 tolas, मानकन्द); the section continues on PDF 748, beyond this…

Wild potato, varāṭikā, muraṭikā, bhūśarkarā (sweet potato), mānakanda, kuṇḍalī, namalikā, sūraṇa, garlic, amlikā, śvetāmlī, musalī, vārāhīkanda, kaṇikā, bhūkarṇī, hastikarṇī and similar…

For earache the ear is filled with rock salt, asafoetida and ginger juice mixed in oil, or with goat urine, garlic and arka juice warmed together, and the liquid is held for a hundred, five…

For kapha-dominant ear disease the ear is filled with hot shigru-root and ginger juice with rock salt, or with goat urine warmed with garlic, arka and rock salt.

Trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali are applied daily as a paste with warm leaves bound over it; the text says this calms aggravated shlipada.

A paste of trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali applied daily, with warm leaves bound over it, is said to calm aggravated shlipada; one that has grown excessively is to be…

Trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali, applied daily as a paste with warm leaves bound over it.