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Khadira heartwood powder impregnated with khadira juice, dried and drunk with khadira decoction, called an excellent medicine for kushtha.

Khadira heartwood powder is impregnated with khadira juice, dried and drunk with khadira decoction; the text calls it an excellent medicine that removes kushtha.

The patient first drinks plenty of lukewarm neem decoction with the three pungents and vomits; afterwards a powder of equal parts of khadira, kutaja, patha, patola leaf, turmeric and the…

After emesis with neem decoction, a powder of equal parts of khadira, kutaja, patha, patola leaf, turmeric and the three pungents is taken daily with warm water for kushtha, piles, kitaka…

Alternatively, lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell (shukti), arimeda (glossed as foul-smelling khadira) with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees…

Introducing, from the scripture of the chief yogis, the processing of bija (gold), mica, tikshna iron, makshika and their essences (sattva) for binding gold-making mercury, the text first…

Eight drugs headed by danti, with sharp iron powder, jaggery and khadira decoction, fermented in a prepared ghee pot buried in grain; taken according to digestive strength, it is said to…

Plenty of lukewarm neem decoction with the three pungents is drunk to induce vomiting, before the Khadiradi powder is given.

At both twilights the child is fumigated with sandal, agaru, tamala leaf (the commentary says tobacco), talisa, kushtha and khadira, with the hair, body hair and nails of animals and human…

The kapha-destroying group is kakajangha, both karanjas (karanja and putikaranja), khadira, palasha, vijayasar, meshashringi, long pepper, cardamom, turmeric, tree turmeric, kutaja bark,…

Seeds of bibhitaki, white sesame, kanguka (the commentary: phul priyangu) and ari (a kind of khadira) are each impregnated three times in turn with the juices of shirisha bark, koranta,…

Sandal, agaru, tamala leaf, talisa, kushtha and khadira with hair, body hair, nails and human bone are powdered, mixed with ghee and used to fumigate the child at both twilights.

Thin sheets of sharp iron are smeared with a paste of the five salts and sour substances, heated in a closed crucible on a cow-dung fire and quenched in khadira and triphala liquid, sixteen…

An ash of sharp iron made by sixteen heatings with salt and sour pastes and quenching in khadira and triphala, taken with ghee and sugar. It is said to remove kushtha, spleen disease, piles…

Kakajangha, both karanjas, khadira, palasha, vijayasar, meshashringi, long pepper, cardamom, both turmerics, kutaja bark, vacha, kushtha, musta, vidanga, nirgundi, chitraka, bhallataka,…

The juice of turaga (ashvagandha), gardabha (white lotus per the commentary) and gorata (foul-smelling khadira) is drunk in a dose of one kuduba, and the salt group with triphala powder is…

The seeds of bibhitaki, white sesame, kanguka (the commentary: phul priyangu) and ari (a kind of khadira, says the commentary) are each given, separately, three impregnations (bhavana) in…