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Three jujubes—the small (kola), the large (badarī) and the bush jujube (karkandhu, झाड़िया बेर)—are listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and…

A firm swelling like a jujube on the palate from kapha and fat, painless or slightly painful; incised and rubbed with medicines.

A powder of jujube kernel and amalaki seed kernel mixed with sugar, given to eat, is called very beneficial in vomiting.

Ghee cooked with the liquids named in the verse (horse gram, kola or jujube, a sour liquid, milk and curd; the commentary reads decoctions of horse gram and jujube with milk and curd) is…

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

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…

A stream of jujube decoction (sauvira, as the commentary reads it), water or milk poured over the patient is also said to help bleeding from the nose.

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.

A hard, fixed, thorny lump like a jujube stone in the throat from kapha; incised and cleansed.

A minor disease: a knot like a jujube or a nail on the sole of the foot from pricking by pebbles or thorns.

After venesection, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga,…

An enema of the decoction of jujube, barley and horse gram, with a paste of long pepper, licorice and rock salt and with old jaggery and sesame oil, called the siddha enema; the text says…

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

Six parts of a decoction of khadira, kutaja, patha, patala, bilva, bhallataka, aragvadha, brihati, eranda, the two karanjas, barley, jujube, horse gram, vacha and chitraka are cooked with…

Antimony collyrium (surma), amalaki, jujube and parched rice soaked in ghee and jaggery are given to eat; katurohini, and a paste of patali flowers and fruit, are also called useful.

Mango fruits with soft stones, iron powder and jujube are powdered in equal parts; a hundred pala of this powder is mixed with one adhaka of sesame oil and one drona of triphala decoction…

The घ section has two entries: घना, glossed as मषवन (the lexicon's Hindi name for mashaparni; Marathi रानउडीद), शंकरजटा and रुद्रजटा, and घोटा (घोटिका), glossed as घोटिका वृक्ष, with the…

Preparations for quick oleation that remove dryness: ghee with long pepper, rock salt and whey (mastu); sugared ghee with milk; ghee mixed into a milk gruel with a little rice; sugared ghee…

Mango, āmrātaka (ambāḍā), citron, lakuca (baḍhar), old tamarind, pomegranate, the small, large and bush jujubes, cavya, phalsa, emblic, chironji, karavandī, cane, jīva, āmraka, sour…

A soaked preparation (tarpana) of parched rice flour with sugar, cardamom, nagakesara, clove and long pepper is given to vomiting patients who suffer thirst. A powder of jujube kernel and…

Sharp foods such as mustard and soups made of kala (glossed jujube), pea, pigeon pea and green gram are said to make coryza ripen quickly.

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…