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Food
Ghee (ghrita)
घी (घृत) · घृत
Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…
Formulation
Ghee that brings lustre to the face
मुख कांतिकारक घृत · मुखकान्तिकारक घृत
Saffron, sandalwood, red sandalwood, lodhra, kushtha, lac, realgar, orpiment, turmeric and tree turmeric, lotus stamens, manjishtha, golden ochre and the kakoli group are ground well and…
Formulation
Ghee with bound mercury, triphala and haritaki
सिद्ध रस युक्त त्रिफला घृत
Bound siddha mercury (the verse: two pala; the commentary: one pala) is put into a good iron vessel with one pala of ghee prepared with triphala water, cooked on a very mild fire, and two…
Formulation
Ghee with vida salt, vacha and madhushigru for udara
बिडलवणादि घृत (उदर में)
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…
Remedy
Ghee cooked with horse gram, jujube, milk and curd
कुलथी, बेर, दूध व दही से सिद्ध घृत
Ghee cooked with the liquids named in the verse (horse gram, kola or jujube, a sour liquid, milk and curd; the commentary reads decoctions of horse gram and jujube with milk and curd) is…
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Ghee that brings lustre to the face
मुख कांतिकारक घृत · मुखकान्तिकारक घृत
Saffron, sandalwood, red sandalwood, lodhra, kushtha, lac, realgar, orpiment, the two turmerics, lotus stamens, manjishtha, golden ochre and the kakoli group are cooked into ghee with four…
Remedy
Ghee affusion and sudation for shuka disease
शूकरोग में घृत सिंचन और स्वेदन
For shuka disease of the penis the verse prescribes pouring plenty of ghee over it and sudation; the commentary says the sudation is done with sweat-inducing drugs.
Formulation
Ghee and jaggery collyrium
घृत-गुड़ अंजन
A collyrium of ghee and jaggery, or sugar mixed with milk, is said to remove sirotpata and siraharsha.
Remedy
Ghee anointing and a bed of lotus leaves
घी का लेप और कमल पत्रों का बिछौना
The pox patient is anointed with ghee and laid on a bed covered with leather and lotus and blue lotus leaves.
Formulation
Ghee cooked in a lotus and liquorice decoction
कमलादि क्वाथ से सिद्ध घृत · पुण्डरीकादि घृत
Ghee cooked in a decoction of lotus, white lotus, blue lotus, liquorice and sariva, licked repeatedly with sugar, is said to calm pitta cough.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with bitter, amalaki and sweet drugs
तिक्त, आमलक, मधुर औषधियों से पका घृत
For pitta and blood coryza, ghee cooked with bitter, amalaki and sweet drugs is called beneficial; the commentary reads bitter, sour and sweet tastes.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with hot, pungent, bitter, drying and astringent drugs
उष्ण, कटु, तिक्त, रूक्ष, कषाय औषधियों से सिद्ध घृत
For kapha coryza, ghee cooked with hot, very pungent, bitter, drying and astringent drugs is given by the rule to calm it.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with kantakari juice
कटेहरी के रस से सिद्ध घृत · व्याघ्रिकास्वरससिद्ध घृत
Drinking ghee cooked with the juice of kantakari is said to destroy vata cough.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with the five milky trees for nosebleed (unnamed)
पंचक्षीरी वृक्ष आदि से सिद्ध घी
Ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, rubbed on the head, is said to calm bleeding from the nose.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with tulasi juices for worms
तुलसी आदि के रस से सिद्ध घृत
Ghee cooked with the juice of the two surasas, arjaka and phanijjaka is said to be beneficial to drink in worm disease.
Procedure
Ghee drinking, purgation and uttara basti in yoni diseases
योनिरोग में घृतपान, विरेचन और उत्तरबस्ति
Yoni diseases from single doshas are treated with ghee drinking, purgation and uttara basti given by rule, while those from all three doshas are given up as incurable.
Formulation
Ghee for intermittent fever
विषमज्वरनाशक घृत
Cow's ghee mixed with powder of the three pungents, three myrobalans and three aromatics is drunk with lukewarm milk for intermittent fevers with vata predominance, such as tritiyaka and…
Formulation
Ghee for the infant with gold and vacha
शिशु सेव्य घृत · शिशुसेव्य घृत
Fresh cow butter or ghee mixed with gold bhasma (हेमचूर्ण in the verse) and vacha powder is given to the child according to its digestive strength, starting with a very small amount and…
Procedure
Ghee given with food (sabhakta)
भोजन के साथ घृतपान · सभक्त घृतपान
For children, delicate, obese, very weak or thirsty people, those averse to ghee, those with anorexia or a burning body and similar patients, the ghee is not given alone but mixed into food…
Remedy
Ghee in a milk gruel with a little rice
थोड़े चावल वाली दूध की यवागू में घृत
A gruel cooked in milk with only a little rice, mixed with that (sugared) ghee and drunk, is said to bring about oleation at once.
Remedy
Ghee made from milk for nasal dryness
दूध से निकाला घी
Nasal dryness is treated with ghee obtained from milk; the route is not stated.
Formulation
Ghee of the sara trees for the Revati graha
सार वृक्षों से सिद्ध घृत
Ghee cooked with all the sara trees is given to drink to a child seized by the Revati graha.
Formulation
Ghee or oil cooked with anti-kushtha drugs, drunk for purification
कुष्ठनाशक औषधियों से पका घी या तेल
In kushtha from the three doshas, ghee or good oil cooked with various drugs that break the force of kushtha is given to drink to purify the patient's body.
Formulation
Ghee prepared with dosha-appropriate medicines
दोषानुसार औषधियों से सिद्ध घृत
Drinking ghee combined with, or cooked with, all the medicines chosen according to the doshas is said to calm new, unripe coryza.