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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.

Black gram (māṣa) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

The case where the placenta (apara) does not come out after delivery. A footnote says it causes distension and bloating of the abdomen, and the text treats it by manual removal, kalihari…

The flowers of shyama (the commentary: phul priyangu, with a question mark), saireyaka (katsaraiya), sahachara (yellow katsaraiya) and black madanaphala; plenty of leaves of mahanila and…

Black shilajatu, called usha, is mixed with borax (tankana kshara), gunja, ghee, honey and jaggery, ground, placed in the fire and blown; the text says gold comes out of it within a short…

If the placenta does not fall it is removed by hand, or a paste of kalihari (langali) is given to drink or applied to the soles, navel and abdomen, or the vaginal opening is fumigated with…

Black pepper (verse ūṣaṇa) is listed among vegetables described as hot and sharp, especially removing kapha and vata, kindling digestion and always provoking blood disorders.

A dreadful disease of the black circle of the eye: a red, very painful growth that breaks through it and discharges blood-like fluid; listed as incurable.

A tridoshic disease in which the black circle of the eye is covered all over with whiteness; described as incurable.

As the alternative in verse 34, some dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery is eaten daily; the same claim is made, that even an old man could go to seventy women without fatigue.

A black kind of shilajatu called usha is described as liquid and shining like lac, plainly showing five colours, used in mercury work and able to make the six metals liquid. Mixed with…

For the Putana graha an offering (bali) of khichdi is always placed in the middle of an empty house; the verse speaks of placing it in the middle of a rubbish heap (utkuruta).

Goat's milk mixed with a decoction of black gram, ghee and plenty of jaggery is drunk at night; the text says that one could then go to women joyfully seven times in each watch of the night.

Iron powder (the verse adds licorice and nilanjana) is ground in a mortar into oil prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky trees, mahanila and the roots of…

If the placenta does not fall, a paste of kalihari (langali) is given to drink; the commentary says the placenta then falls quickly.

An eyelid disease that follows neglected klishtavartma, with black sticky slime.

Well-cooked black gram, rubbed in a mortar and soaked in good ghee, is fed when stool is retained in gulma.

A white opacity (phula) on the black circle of the eye, curable when even and without ulceration (avrana), incurable when sunken and discharging (savrana).

Flowers of shyama, saireyaka, sahachara and black madanaphala, leaves of mahanila and nila, shalaparni, mango kernel, arjuna bark, samudraphala, jujube, the bark of milky trees and iron…

A sour horse-gram preparation (kanji) with black pepper powder is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Cited as an example of poison used as medicine in poison-induced udara: pieces of sugarcane are made to be bitten by a black snake and then eaten.

Flour of shali rice, black gram and sesame is made into cakes (pūpa); the verse has them cooked with milk and ghee mixed with sugar, and the commentary has them eaten with sugar, milk and…