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White hair is first smeared with a paste (kalka) of triphala and washed with triphala decoction. Then iron powder, in an amount equal to it, is ground well with the juices of champa,…

An ash of sharp iron made by sixteen heatings with salt and sour pastes and quenching in khadira and triphala, taken with ghee and sugar. It is said to remove kushtha, spleen disease, piles…

Chironji (priyāla) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse impurities and be sharp.

Eight drugs headed by danti, with sharp iron powder, jaggery and khadira decoction, fermented in a prepared ghee pot buried in grain; taken according to digestive strength, it is said to…

A powder of turmeric, tree turmeric, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper with iron ash, mixed with ghee, is licked constantly by the pandu patient.

To the purified tikshna iron powder good gold powder (the commentary: an equal amount) and six times as much svarnamakshika powder are added; this powder, the food (grasa) of mercury, is…

Mango fruits with soft stones (the commentary: raw mango), iron powder and jujube are taken in equal parts and powdered. A hundred pala of this powder is mixed well with one adhaka of…

Jaggery, haritaki, cow urine and iron ash are cooked together and the decoction is given in kamala.

Yellow mica, patalika and patuvajraka are ground with rock salt, borax and the three pungents in punarnava juice, cooked in kanji, melted in a crucible, ground with gold powder and mixed…

Tikshna iron is powdered, mixed with an equal amount of svarnamakshika powder, washed well with hot kanji and cooked well many times with kanji. It is then purified with cow urine,…

One who uses one tula of this sharp iron ash while eating food free of salt and sour things, as suited to the disease, is said to live a hundred years free of disease; the commentary…

Thin sheets of sharp iron are smeared with a paste of the five salts and sour substances, heated in a closed crucible on a cow-dung fire and quenched in khadira and triphala liquid, sixteen…

Bhringaraja, iron powder and triphala are taken in equal parts and powdered, and the powder is stirred into three times its quantity of triphala decoction and set aside (in a pot in a heap…

Triphala, iron calx, pyrite (sonamakhi), long pepper, vidanga and bhringaraja, which the verse says are taken in equal parts, are used as a powder; the commentary says this brings out three…

Food free of salt and sour things, and one tula in all (5 ser in the commentary); one who does so is said to live a hundred years free of disease.

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.

Powder of the mango-kernel and iron powder are taken in equal parts, and triphala powder and nilanjana powder (glossed as blue vitriol or antimony) each equal to these two. The four powders…

Gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya (the commentary: bhuri charila, a kind of fragrant substance), their flowers; guduchi, hata (shaivala), mahanila, vanamallika, nili…

The flowers of shyama (the commentary: phul priyangu, with a question mark), saireyaka (katsaraiya), sahachara (yellow katsaraiya) and black madanaphala; plenty of leaves of mahanila and…

Flowers of shyama, saireyaka, sahachara and black madanaphala, leaves of mahanila and nila, shalaparni, mango kernel, arjuna bark, samudraphala, jujube, the bark of milky trees and iron…

Finely powdered conch rubbed hard with breast milk in two iron vessels and repeatedly fumigated with sugar is applied regularly as a collyrium to eyes affected by pitta disorders.