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A minor disease: boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, with fever.

Kakshadhara marma stands in the arm in place of vitapa in the leg; its injury gives the same signs as vitapa.

Boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, accompanied by fever, are called kaksha; a paste of clove, licorice, sesame and manjishtha is useful (the…

For kaksha the verse prescribes pastes of indrapushpa, madhuka, sesame and peas; the commentary calls a paste of clove, licorice, sesame and manjishtha useful.

Pigeon pea (āḍhakī, arhar) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Bibhitaki is said to have qualities like those of abhaya (haritaki), as the Jina taught.

Footnotes give one prasṛti as 8 tolā and one āḍhaka as 256 tolā.

Kasa is described as vitiated prana vayu joined with udana leaving the mouth with a cracked-bronze sound. It has five kinds; the kshayaja kind is tridoshic and hard to treat.

A cold decoction of kasha grass, sugarcane root, liquorice, sandalwood and sariva is given to digest pitta fever.

For very heavy bleeding, a very dry powder of lac, bibhitaka, black gram and pigeon pea, mixed with plenty of ash of silk cloth, is put on the place to stop the blood.

हिन्दी: विभीतक वृक्ष, रुद्राक्ष, कर्षपरिमाण, बहेडा वृक्ष, 2 तोले का प्रमाण · मराठी: बेहेडा, रुद्राक्ष, कर्षप्रमाण

हिन्दी: उशीर, खस · मराठी: बाला

हिन्दी: तालमखाना, ईख, कांस, गोखरू · मराठी: तिरकांडे, बोरू, काळा ऊंस, विखग, लघु मुंजतृण, थोर मुंजतृण, कोळसुंदा, थोर तिरकांडे, रामबाण

हिन्दी: तालमखाना, ईख, कांस, गोखरू · मराठी: तिरकांडे, बोरू, काळा ऊंस, विखग, लघु मुंजतृण, थोर मुंजतृण, कोळसुंदा, थोर तिरकांडे, रामबाण

हिन्दी: वीरणमूल, खस, गाडरखस · मराठी: काळा वाळा, पीत वाळा

हिन्दी: कांस · मराठी: लघु कसई