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A decoction of guduchi that has not been damaged by insects, with sugar added, is said to surely calm vomiting from all three doshas.

A decoction of guduchi, nut grass, bitter patola and haritaki is drunk in sannipata fever.

As an alternative for an even burn, guduchi and the lotus-flower group (white, blue and red lotus and the like) are ground in the same liquids, milk, sugarcane juice or ghee, and applied as…

Guḍūcī shoots (गुर्च in the commentary; the verse word is unclear) are listed among sprout vegetables described as cold, kapha-producing, strongly aphrodisiac, heavy, pitta-calming,…

हिन्दी: वनमुद्ग, गुडूची, गेंठी, वनमूंग, गिलोय · मराठी: डुकरकंद, बचनाग, वनमूग

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.

A decoction of neem, guduchi, red sandal and nut grass, mixed with sugar, is drunk by the pox patient.

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

In fevers from all the doshas a decoction is drunk of nut grass, turmeric, amla, sandalwood and sariva; or of guduchi, nut grass, bitter patola and haritaki; or of murva, guduchi, nut…

Three decoctions are given for pox: neem, guduchi, red sandal and nut grass with sugar; raisins, haritaki, guduchi, patola, patha, kutki and nut grass; or bhallataka, mango, khas,…

Having given formulas for all vata and kapha poisons, the text now gives very cooling ones for pitta poisons: sariva, jatamamsi, raisins, clove, cinnamon, shyama, somalata, shallaki,…

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…

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…

A decoction of murva, guduchi, nut grass, bibhitaki and kutki is drunk in sannipata fever.

A decoction of vasa, guduchi, nut grass, patola leaves and dry ginger is drunk in all vata fevers.

In all vata fevers a decoction is drunk of vasa, guduchi, nut grass, patola leaves and dry ginger; or of patha, agnimantha, both nightshades and dry ginger; or of ginger, neem and aragvadha.

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

An oil is prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky (kshiri) trees, mahanila, and the roots of blue lotus and red kumuda (a footnote: the word आंघ्रिक्वाथ may…

Iron powder (the verse adds licorice and nilanjana) is ground in a mortar into oil prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky trees, mahanila and the roots of…

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…

A garland strung from bhudhara, gorakhmundi, guduchi, bilva thorns, sandal, indralata, drumstick root and indrayan root is put on a child seized by the Kinnara graha.

The author announces that he will now briefly set out the special procedures, that is the kalpas, of kshara, triphala, the chitraka group, white ashvagandha, guduchi, punarnava and other…

A Sanskrit verse in the glossary names the Kakolyadi group: kakoli, kshirakakoli, jivaka, rishabhaka, riddhi, vriddhi, meda, mahameda, guduchika, mudgaparni, mashaparni, padmaka,…

Ghee cooked with dung juice of goat, horse and cow, decoctions of guduchi, khadira, murva and chavya, and milk, with a paste of rasna, trikatu and licorice, is licked and said to calm…