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Kataka fruit and karanja fruit ground with goat's urine make a collyrium that the text calls sight-giving.

A person poisoned by the tuber poison karkaṭaka is said to leap up, wander about and laugh excessively.

A person poisoned by karkaṭaka leaps up, wanders about and laughs a great deal. Kardamaka makes both eyes yellow and causes diarrhoea and burning.

हिन्दी: कतक वृक्ष, निर्मली · मराठी: निवळीच्या बिया

Kanaka (dhatūrā) is said to hold poison in its fruit, leaves and flowers.

Rubbing (the killed mercury) with gold is said to give more vigour (virya) and freedom from disease.

Jackfruit (panasa, कटहर) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

Kaṭerī (verse kāsaghnī) leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

The crown (top part) of ketakī (kevaḍā) is listed with that of palmyra and coconut as kapha-removing.

The pomegranate tree is named among the five lavaṇī plants growing by the sea, said to remove vata, produce kapha, pitta and blood, cause wasting, digest with difficulty and suit urinary…

Thorn-like sprouts on the tongue from vata, pitta or kapha, each with its dosha's pain and signs, treated by dosha with rubbing, scraping and pastes.

हिन्दी: त्रिकटु, सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल · मराठी: कडु पडवळ, कंकोळ, पिंडीतगर, त्रिकटु, मीठ, कडु कांकडी, रुई, मन्दार, वाळाभेद, मोहरी, कुटकी

हिन्दी: ढाक वृक्ष, नागकेशर वृक्ष, धतूरे का वृक्ष, लाल कचनार वृक्ष, कलंबक, पीला चन्दन, चंपा वृक्ष, कसौंदी वृक्ष, कणगूगल, पलासमेद · मराठी: राळ, सोनकमळ, नागकेशर, श्वेत धोत्रा, पीत कोरंटा, काळा…

हिन्दी: कंजा वृक्ष, भंगरा वृक्ष · मराठी: करंज, वानरपिंपळी, थोर करंज, करंजवल्ली, काबीचा वेल (कंटकयुक्त असतो), काचका, पांगारा, वाघनख

हिन्दी: बृहती, कटेहरी, कटाई · मराठी: डोरली, गुल्थोटि

Tuber poisons are very dreadful and of thirteen kinds: kālakūṭa, karkaṭaka, sarṣapaka, kardamaka, vatsanābha, mūlaka, puṇḍarīka, mahāviṣa, sambhā (śṛṅgī), mustaka, hālāhala, pālaka and…

Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.

The editor says Ugrāditya wrote nothing in particular about himself, and the work he composed is itself the witness to his learning and power of exposition. His guru was Śrīnandi, and the…

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,…

Water is purified by rubbing in clearing nut (kataka), adding linseed flour, boiling, quenching red-hot iron in it, setting it in sunlight by day and moonlight at night, and straining it;…

Water is purified by rubbing in clearing nut (kataka, nirmalī seed), adding linseed flour, boiling it over fire, quenching red-hot iron in it, setting it in sunlight and at night in…