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Vidanga powder impregnated many times with horse-dung juice and mixed with sesame oil and sugar is said to destroy worms when used.

Vidanga powder is steeped many times in the juice of horse dung, then mixed with sesame oil and sugar; its use is said to destroy the colonies of worms.

Flour of rice, wheat and the like mixed with the juice of the dung of donkey, camel, cow, buffalo and horse is eaten, and water strained through the ash of the same dung is used for…

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

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,…

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…

Dung juice of goat, horse and cow, decoctions of guduchi, khadira, murva and chavya, milk and ghee, one part each (nine parts), are cooked with a paste of rasna, trikatu and licorice;…

Eating flour of rice, wheat and the like mixed with the juice of the dung of the donkey, camel, cow, buffalo and horse, and using water strained through the ash of the same dung for…