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Condition
Indigestion of drunk ghee
घृत का अजीर्ण · घृताजीर्ण
Ghee drunk for oleation that has not been digested; the text says it gives rise to anorexia, fever, prameha, insanity, kushtha and fainting, and manages it with hot salted water or emesis…
Therapy
Oleation therapy (snehana)
स्नेहन
Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.
Therapy
Therapeutic purgation (virechana)
विरेचन (जुलाब) · विरेचन
Purgation is said to sharpen the sight, strengthen the senses, increase intelligence, bodily strength and the digestive fire, prolong life and remove diseases from faults of stool and…
Principle
Vehicle taken with medicine (anupana)
अनुपान
The commentary prescribes the after-drink by the kind of food: sour gruel (kāñjī; the verse says sauvīra) when eating things made of pulses, buttermilk with boiled rice and the like, warm…