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Mahua fruit is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

हिन्दी: मुलहटी, रांग · मराठी: मोहाचा वृक्ष, गोडें कोष्ठ, कथील, मध, ज्येष्ठीमध, मेण

हिन्दी: मुलहटी, महुआ वृक्ष · मराठी: ज्येष्ठीमध, मोहाचा वृक्ष

A fumigation wick made from a paste of mahua, khirni, neem, ingudi, palasha and castor kernels with kushtha, jatamamsi, devadaru, guggulu, resin, fresh ginger, sariva and others; it is lit…

The kernels of mahua, khirni, neem, ingudi, palasha and castor, with kushtha, jatamamsi, devadaru, guggulu, resin, fresh ginger, sariva and others, are ground into a paste, spread on a…

Ghee cooked with four times its quantity of a decoction of liquorice, red sandalwood and sariva, four times cow's milk, sugar and a paste of the eight drugs of the kakoli group is said to…

Ghee cooked with four parts of a decoction of liquorice, red sandalwood and sariva, four parts of cow's milk, sugar and a paste of the eight drugs kakoli, kshirakakoli, jivaka, rishabhaka,…

A paste of licorice and saffron with jaggery, churned in water, kept overnight and drunk cold, is said to remove all urinary disorders.

A paste of licorice and saffron with jaggery is churned in water and left overnight; drunk cold in the morning, it is said to remove all urinary disorders.

Licorice, turmeric, devadaru, kantakari, small cardamom, nut grass and amalaki, as powder or paste, are drunk with sour gruel, milk or rice water by the patient with urinary disease.

Powder or paste of licorice, turmeric, devadaru, kantakari, small cardamom, nut grass and amalaki is drunk with sour gruel, milk or rice water; amalaki juice (one kuduba, 16 tola) alone or…

Sesame, licorice, peas, ashvattha and green gram are ground well and mixed with ghee, milk and jaggery; the commentary says it is given to drink with drugs of the cooling group to calm…

Sesame, licorice, peas, ashvattha and green gram, ground well and mixed with ghee, milk and jaggery, are given with the cooling group of drugs to calm vitiated blood, followed by treatment…

Beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika, buffalo ear-wax, woman's milk, the paravati tree, meshashringi and borax powder is said to bring about the transfer (sankramana) of the…

Grapes head a list of fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

The introduction says honey, like wine and meat, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing countless living beings and its renunciation is…

Shuka disease is described as many eruptions on the penis caused by rubbing it with rough leaves, masturbation and intercourse with a narrow vagina; a footnote counts eighteen kinds.…

Boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, accompanied by fever, are called kaksha; a paste of clove, licorice, sesame and manjishtha is useful (the…

Madhugaṅgā is listed among the root vegetables.

For kaksha the verse prescribes pastes of indrapushpa, madhuka, sesame and peas; the commentary calls a paste of clove, licorice, sesame and manjishtha useful.

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.111), headed as Pūjyapāda's: Trikaṭukādi nasya for vāta and other disorders. Fifteen ingredients in equal parts, the three pungents, citraka,…

Having described grains, the author undertakes to describe vegetables from roots to fruits. The roots (mūla) listed are lotus root, nālī (nāḍī) greens, potato and similar tubers,…