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Jaggery, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

A niruha in which jaggery and sesame oil are taken in equal measure and combined with a decoction of castor root; the text says it removes all severe doshas. It is introduced for kings,…

A niruha in which jaggery and oil are put in equal measure is called gudatailika; combined with a decoction of castor root it is said to remove all severe doshas. A footnote says the…

Jaggery taken daily and diligently together with haritaki, said to destroy the great disease udara.

For kings, wealthy men who live like kings, the very old, children, delicate persons and women, who by nature cannot bear the enema procedures above, the jaggery-and-oil (gudatailika)…

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

The pox patient is fumigated with jaggery, sal resin, guggulu, dhyamaka, kushtha and sandal.

A powder of abhaya, musta and dry ginger eaten with jaggery is said to remove kapha cough quickly.

Antimony collyrium (surma), amalaki, jujube and parched rice, soaked in ghee and jaggery, are given to hiccup patients to eat.

For internal, unseen piles a powder of bhallataka and haritaki mixed with jaggery is eaten every morning until a hundred pala of powder have been taken.

As the alternative in verse 34, some dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery is eaten daily; the same claim is made, that even an old man could go to seventy women without fatigue.

Powder of small cardamom and asafoetida with ghee and jaggery, drunk with milk, is said to destroy various kinds of urinary obstruction and semen-related urinary diseases.

Small cardamom, shilajit and long pepper (the verse says more of it) are drunk with jaggery water by the patient with urinary disease.

A king who wishes to guard his heart against poison should always first drink very cold soup of legume grains mixed with ghee and jaggery.

Enemas of old jaggery and sesame oil in equal measure with the stated liquid and various drugs, which remove various doshas, are to be given properly many times. The physician may use these…

Cow milk with jaggery is said to be beneficial in pandu and kamala.

For kings, wealthy men, the very old, children, delicate persons and women who cannot bear the usual enemas; jaggery and oil in equal measure are combined with castor-root decoction.

A collyrium of ghee and jaggery, or sugar mixed with milk, is said to remove sirotpata and siraharsha.

Killed mercury (mrita rasa) rubbed with gold is taken daily by the patient, according to the measure (strength) of the doshas, in well-boiled milk with jaggery; afterwards woman's milk is…

In a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long pepper is drunk.

In pitta hoarseness milk mixed with ghee and jaggery should be drunk.

Mustard seeds mixed with jaggery are eaten by the patient with indigestion.

Raisins and long pepper mixed with ghee and jaggery, followed by a drink of milk and used continually, are said to bring about the destruction of consumption.

Rice, black gram, barley, shashtika rice and wheat, well roasted and ground, mixed with ghee and jaggery and given with buffalo milk, are said to destroy wasting cough.