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A cold infusion or decoction of amla, nut grass, hribera and coriander with plenty of sugarcane juice, drunk in the morning with triphala and ghee, is said by the experts to pacify all…

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 paste of sesame and hribera is drunk with whey (the liquid of curd) in the ama stage of pitta diarrhoea.

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.

Oil cooked with the milky trees, hribera and bala is used in vatarakta for pouring, massage and enemas; for pastes it is mixed with ghee.

Milk cooked with tuntuka (shyonaka), pilu, both nightshades, patala, agnimantha, ashvagandha, sushavi (black cumin in the commentary), liquorice and hribera, mixed with ghee and jaggery and…

The child is bathed in a cooled decoction of mango, neem, plantain, kapittha and jambu, and massage with oil cooked with the same trees and pastes of them are also commended. A footnote…

An enema of the decoction and paste of priyangu, musta, hribera, manjishtha and pishtaka mixed with goat milk, called the binding enema, which the text says checks the stool.

An enema of the decoction and paste of priyangu, musta, hribera (sugandhavala), manjishtha and pishtaka, mixed with goat milk, is called a binding (samgrahika) enema, which checks the stool.

A decoction of parched rice, hribera, amla and raw kaseru is drunk in all pitta fevers.

In all pitta fevers a decoction is drunk of parched rice, hribera, amla and raw kaseru; or of raisins, naga (nut grass in the commentary), liquorice, blue water lily and sariva; or of…

Water (decoction or cold infusion) of raisins, liquorice, sugarcane, hribera and nut grass, into which a fine paste of clove, lotus, blue water lily and lotus stamens is stirred with…

In water (a decoction or cold infusion) of raisins, liquorice, sugarcane, hribera and nut grass, a fine paste of clove, lotus, blue water lily and lotus stamens is stirred with jaggery…

A footnote adds that a paste of khas, licorice, hribera, sariva, lotus, lodhra, priyangu, manjishtha and red ochre is also beneficial for the Garuda-seized child.

Oil cooked with the milky trees, hribera and bala is used in vatarakta for pouring, massage and enemas, and mixed with ghee for pastes; wheat, rice, barley, green gram, milk and ghee are…

Licorice, sandalwood, vetiver, hribera, nut grass, lotus and neem leaf and root, rubbed in rice water and drunk, are said to relieve vishuchika together with thirst.

Kapittha, shali rice, khas and hribera; or peas, kaleyaka and jasmine leaves; or sesame and dark sandal, ground in milk and mixed with cow's ghee, are applied to make the skin its normal…

For bleeding from the nose the commentary gives as nasya ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, or ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of…

Nichula is used with the milky trees, hribera and arjuna in a ghee rubbed on the head for nosebleed, where the commentary glosses it as वेत (cane); in the next verse it glosses निचुल as…

The pitta-destroying group is kunduru, neem, clove, liquorice, sahadevi, gangeran, vidari tuber, kakoli, vrishchikali, rasaunt, mahua flowers, vetiver, mango, banana, musta, hribera, lotus,…

Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd…

When the ulcers have healed, the skin colour is restored by applying, with ghee and sugar, turmeric, red ochre, or cool fragrant sandal or manjishtha; or kapittha, shali rice, khas and…

In the seventh month of pregnancy a dose of ghee cooked with the decoction of licorice, lotus, hribera, neem, banana, kadamba bark and jambu, and with curd and milk, is drunk daily to calm…