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Abhaya (haritaki) used with ghee is said to remove severe aggravation of pitta.

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…

In its survey of the Vedic period the introduction says the story of the sage Cyavana supports a formula (yoga) that restores youth.

Sesame oil cooked with twenty parts of bhringaraja juice and a paste of haritaki is said to destroy shvasa and cough quickly, just as triphala decoction taken with ghee does.

Ghee cooked with kantakari juice, oil cooked with the juices of kasamarda, vasa and bhringaraja, or haritaki taken with salt are each said to destroy cough born of vata.

Perfected mercury with mica powder, joined with gold (the commentary: gold bhasma), becomes steady in fire, and one who eats this swooned nectar is said to gain quickly imperishable vigour,…

With salts such as rock salt for vata, with ghee for pitta and with dry ginger for kapha.

A ghee cooked with a decoction of sixteen drugs, snuhi latex and a paste of haritaki, sea salt or devadaru and chavya is said to cure consumption, abdominal enlargement, all urinary…

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…

Ghee cooked with four parts of a decoction of trikatu, cardamom, neem, aragvadha, nut grass, bhallataka, chitraka, alum, haritaki, ajamoda, asana, khadira, amalaki, shala and vit-khadira is…

Lukewarm milk with suvarchika (yavakshara in the commentary), asafoetida and dry ginger, or jaggery taken daily with haritaki, is said to relieve mahodara; so are a thousand pippalis…

Abhaya (haritaki) is said to be truly fearless and to give well-being; taken constantly it is like a rasayana for the growth of the rasas. Used with salts such as rock salt it destroys…

A powder of musta, the three pungents, ajamoda, amalaki, rock salt, patha, haritaki and chitraka, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

A powder of shigru, pippalimula, bibhitaki, haritaki, black pepper, long pepper, dry ginger, cardamom and vidanga, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

Three powders are given: asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt; or musta, the three pungents, ajamoda, amalaki, rock salt, patha, haritaki and…

A decoction of haritaki, bibhitaki and amalaki with ghee added is said to destroy shvasa quickly; the verse uses it as the comparison for Bhringaraja oil.

After purification, the pandu patient constantly licks triphala mixed with ghee and sugar; the commentary gives a powder of haritaki, bibhitaka, amalaki, dry ginger, black pepper and long…

Amalaki is eaten in the morning at mealtime, and one haritaki with bibhitaki at night; the commentary makes this three amalaki in the morning and one haritaki and two bibhitaki at night,…

Amalaki in the morning at mealtime and one haritaki with bibhitaki at night (the commentary: three amalaki in the morning, one haritaki and two bibhitaki at night), powdered and taken with…

Three purgative combinations for vata in the colon: turpeth, the three pungents and rock salt powdered and taken with castor oil or ghee; a paste of dry ginger, haritaki and rock salt with…