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An oil cooked with karavira, vidanga, danti root, chitraka root, orpiment, snuhi latex, arka latex and rock salt is applied on piles, which the text says it pacifies.

Aśvamāra (kaner) is named among the plants whose root holds poison.

An alternative paste of bakuchi, rock salt, bhushirisha, kushtha, karavira, the three pungents and chitraka ground in cow urine.

हिन्दी: कनेर, कनेर की जड़ · मराठी: श्वेत कणेर, अर्जुन वृक्ष

हिन्दी: हिंगपत्री, कारव वृक्ष · मराठी: हिंगाच्या झाडाचे पान

Oil or ghee, or both, cooked with the paste and decoction of sesame, danti, trivrit, indravaruni, shatavari (as glossed), kushtha, karavira, turmeric, kanjira, karanja, langali root, arka,…

Pastes for piles: arka latex with orpiment and turmeric powder; snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric; pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse)…

Equal parts of shigru, karanja, chitraka, the three pungents, karavira, ashvagandha and wild basil, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied…

Equal parts of shigru, karanja, chitraka, the three pungents, karavira (kaner), ashvagandha and wild basil, or of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, are ground fine…

Two pastes ground in cow urine: one of rock salt, chakramarda, kushtha, chitraka and the three pungents; the other of bakuchi, rock salt, bhushirisha, kushtha, karavira, the three pungents…