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Cold water with madanaphala, long pepper, vacha and sandalwood, in which jaggery has been soaked, is used to make a patient with severe pitta vomit; afterwards cold yavagu with ghee and…

Milk in which triphala and madanaphala, mixed with a paste of rock salt, vacha and long pepper, have been cooked is given lukewarm in the morning to bring on emesis after oleation and…

Fruits of piṇḍītaka, glossed 'madana tree, a kind of tulasī', are listed among fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly…

Bandaged in this way, the wound is cleansed, heals, becomes soft and free of pain; therefore bandaging is always proper, and this is the right course in the treatment of all wounds.

The first sarana is said to make the mercury a hundred times more powerful, pratisarana a thousand times and anusarana a hundred thousand times (the commentary: a lakh). Mercury processed…

हिन्दी: जायफल, हरड, बहेडा, आमला, शीतलचीनी, मैनफल, फल, अंडकोष, कुडा वृक्ष, मैनफल वृक्ष · मराठी: त्रिफळा, कांकोली, स्त्रीरज, कुडा, जायफल, इन्द्रजव, गेळ, दान, सुपारी, खरबूज, वृषणग्रंथि

हिन्दी: छोटा शाल · मराठी: सागसादडी, हेद, अर्जुन सादडा, लघु राळेचा वृक्ष, क्षुद्र फणस, बढारफल, थोर राळेचा वृक्ष, चारोळी

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

When diarrhoea carries much ama, emesis is induced by having the patient drink warm water mixed with a paste of madanaphala, rock salt and long pepper.

A neem decoction with a paste of rock salt, vacha and madanaphala is given for emesis in kapha fever.

An enema fluid of oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and cow's urine, churned with a fine paste of seventeen drugs (one…

A decoction of liquorice, long pepper, vacha and madanaphala is used to give mild emesis even to patients otherwise unfit for emesis, when they suffer severe indigestion, strong poisoning,…

After the body is oiled with sesame, linseed and mustard oil, the prameha patient is given emesis with neem juice and a decoction of madanaphala, and purgation with purgative drugs.

For rat bites, emesis and purgation are induced according to the provoked dosha with aragvadha, madanaphala, ankola and koshataki.

The prameha patient's body is first oiled with sesame, linseed and mustard oil; he is then made to vomit with neem juice and the decoction of madanaphala fruits, and purged with purgative…

The ama and pakva states of diarrhoea are to be judged well and treated accordingly (digestion in the ama state, binding in the pakva state, says the commentary). When much ama is present,…

Madanaphala, long pepper, vacha and sandalwood are mixed into cold water and jaggery is soaked in it; with this water a patient whose body is burning from excess pitta is made to vomit, and…

Even patients for whom emesis was forbidden may, if they suffer severe indigestion, strong poisoning, excess kapha or violent vata pain in the chest, be given mild emesis with a decoction…

Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…

An oil is prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky (kshiri) trees, mahanila, and the roots of blue lotus and red kumuda (a footnote: the word आंघ्रिक्वाथ may…

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…

Gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya (the commentary: bhuri charila, a kind of fragrant substance), their flowers; guduchi, hata (shaivala), mahanila, vanamallika, nili…

For the enema, oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji are mixed in due measure with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and with cow's urine and churned; a fine paste…