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Fruits of kākādanī (verse gṛdhrā) head the fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly increasing vata and countering poison.

हिन्दी: कौआठोडी, घुंघुची, सफेद घुंघुची, काकादनी वृक्ष · मराठी: रक्तगुंजा, थोर मालकांगोणी, लघु रक्त कावळी, श्वेतगुंजा, लघु मालकांगी, लघु फडीचे निवडुंग

Cited as an example of poison used as medicine in poison-induced udara: a paste of the roots of kakadani, ashvamaraka and gunja is to be given.

A child seized by the Shitaputana graha is made to wear bimbi, gunja and kakadani.

हिन्दी: काकादनी वृक्ष · मराठी: फडीचे निवडुंग

हिन्दी: तोंबी, काकदनी वृक्ष, कड़वी · मराठी: दुधभोंपळा, कडू दुधभोंपळा

Cucumber (खीरा; verse trapuṣa) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Complete stiffness, much yawning and heavy breathing are among the signs of aggravated vāta.

Kākamācī (makoy) is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

हिन्दी: मकोय, केवैया · मराठी: काकजंघा, लघु कावळी, भाभोलणी

हिन्दी: कंटकारी, कटेरी · मराठी: भारंग, मोतरिंगणी, लघु डोरली

हिन्दी: नील अपराजिता, इन्द्रायण, नीली कोयलता, कृष्णकान्ता · मराठी: दुधी, चारोळी, श्वेत गोकर्णी, काळी किन्ही, थोर इन्द्रावण, काळी गोकर्णी, वारुणी, आक्षोठ, गवाक्षी, शेन्दणी, लघु कांवडळ

हिन्दी: ककड़ी · मराठी: गोपाळ काकडी, काकडी

हिन्दी: सहदेई · मराठी: तानीचा बेल, पेटारी, पिंपळी, सहदेवी, गवादनी, वत्सादनी, लघु नीली, गवाक्षी, धामणी, गिरिकर्णी

Mercury (rasa, parada) is said to be also called rasaraja.

The text says that in the juice of sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani mercury is well fixed and does not run here and there, and that steamed (samsveda) with oil combined…

In the juice of the five plants sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani (the commentary: sarahati-gandani, sarpata, yellow katasaraiya, patha and kakadini) mercury does not…

The child is fumigated with mustard, hair of all kinds (cow, goat, human and others), snake slough, asafoetida, vacha and kakadani mixed with ghee and jaggery, and is bathed at a crossroads…

The child is fumigated with neem leaves, snake slough, sal resin, owl and hare droppings and vajigandha (the commentary reads ajagandha, ajwain), and made to wear bimbi, gunja and kakadani…

It is put in the juice of sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani and steamed with oil combined with their paste and decoction; it then stays steady even in very sharp fire.

Mustard, hair of all kinds, snake slough, asafoetida, vacha and kakadani mixed with ghee and jaggery are put on fire to fumigate a child seized by the graha.