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Enlargement of the liver on the right side, from blood vitiated by fever, intense burning, much water and burning-type foods.

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed in strained palasha-ash water, or sea salt cooked with the alkalis, are drunk and said to destroy plihodara.

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

Enlargement of the spleen on the left side, arising from the same causes as liver enlargement.

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

Horse-gram soup (kulattha-yūṣa) is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

An alkali made from the ash of the black mushkaka tree boiled in water, strained and thickened, with burnt conch navel, lime, putikaranja and bhallataka added; it is to be drunk in proper…

A black mushkaka tree is uprooted, dried and burnt to ash; one drona of the ash is boiled with six adhaka of water in a large clean vessel until the liquid is clear, red and sharp,…

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

Piles give rise to nodules, gulma, liver enlargement, ashthila, abdominal disease, loss of strength and colic; because they are the root of many diseases they are called mularoga (root…

Named in this range only as a disorder that horse gram is said to remove.

Long-standing diarrhoea, chronic fever, insanity, epilepsy, urinary stone, gulma, abdominal enlargement, liver disorder, vata, breathlessness and cough, spleen enlargement, ashthila,…

Lukewarm cow milk mixed with camphor, said to relieve liver and spleen enlargement, distension and mahodara.

Pulses as a class (arhar, chickpea, lentil and others) are described as dry, cooling, astringent-sweet, binding and vata-increasing, and being astringent they suit raktapitta. Horse gram is…

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of seven drugs and cow-dung juice, licked for liver and spleen enlargement, distension, mahodara, cough, gulma, upward-moving vata and udavarta.

Ghee cooked with six pala of decoction and six pala of paste of pippali, dry ginger, gajapippali, shati, sea salt, chitraka and yavakshara and one prastha of cow-dung juice is the shatpala…

Lukewarm milk (cow's milk, says the verse) is said to be wholesome in long-standing diarrhoea, chronic fever, insanity, epilepsy, urinary stone, gulma, abdominal enlargement, liver…

After the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (liver) or left arm (spleen) is pierced while the spleen is pressed; lukewarm cow milk with camphor is…