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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.

Long pepper root ground with tulasi and jati juice is given daily with goat urine to a patient with worms; a diet of pungent and bitter items is said to be very beneficial.

For kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines.

Urine is said to be of eight kinds, from eight animals: cow, goat, buffalo, horse, donkey, camel, elephant and ram.

Long pepper root ground with the juice of tulasi and jati is given daily with goat urine to a patient with worms, and meals of pungent and bitter items are said to be very beneficial.

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

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…

In kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines such as cow and goat urine.

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.

Cow, goat, buffalo, horse, donkey, camel, elephant and ram; all are said to kill worms, to be pungent, bitter, hot, dry and light, and to remove kapha and vata.

Ghee and oil cooked with a paste, ground in the eight urines, and a decoction of about forty plant, mineral and animal substances in equal parts are used in graha disease for drinking,…

Because grass-eaters owe their vigour to plants, the text says, their dung, urine and milk, not those of flesh-eaters, are taken as medicines; it quotes that the urines of goat, sheep, cow,…

Kataka fruit and karanja fruit ground with goat's urine make a collyrium that the text calls sight-giving.

If linganasha (timira) disperses quickly when pressed, it is known to be born of intense kapha. The patient looks at his own nose; the physician slowly pierces the natural opening in the…

Urine is of eight kinds, from the cow, goat, buffalo, horse, donkey, camel, elephant and ram. All of them are described as destroying worms, pungent, bitter and hot, dry and light, and…

Talisa, large cardamom, vidanga, kushtha, vida salt, rock salt, bharangi, asafoetida, indravaruni, apamarga, patha, patola, vacha and the flowers of arka, karanja, vajra, surasa, bhallataka…

An antidote powder of herbs, salts and six kinds of flowers mixed with goat's milk, ghee and water (the commentary: urine), used as the preceding antidotes to destroy poison.