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Mango leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

A child seized by the Garuda graha is bathed in a cooled decoction of mango, neem, plantain, kapittha and jambu, and oil cooked with them is used for massage, along with pastes of the same.

Mango fruits with soft stones (the commentary: raw mango), iron powder and jujube are taken in equal parts and powdered. A hundred pala of this powder is mixed well with one adhaka of…

Mango, āmrātaka (ambāḍā), citron, lakuca (baḍhar), old tamarind, pomegranate, the small, large and bush jujubes, cavya, phalsa, emblic, chironji, karavandī, cane, jīva, āmraka, sour…

A decoction or cold infusion of bhallataka, mango, khas, coriander, kutki and nut grass is drunk in pox.

For menstrual blood that is foul-smelling and like pus or marrow, a decoction of devadaru, mango, sarala, agaru and sandalwood is drunk.

A decoction of jambu, musta, mango, kutaja and ativisha is drunk in the ama stage of pitta diarrhoea.

The pox patient is fanned all round, constantly, with leaves of ashoka, neem, mango and kadamba.

A child seized by the Shitaputana graha is always bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka.

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.

The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.

Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…

Marshy land has abundant cold water and ground that is always muddy and hard to cross; very tender grasses, shrubs and creepers; banyan, pāṭalī, pārijāta, aśoka, clove, jasmine, mango,…

A powder of twelve drugs headed by mango seed kernel, drunk with whey, is said to settle diarrhoea in the pakva stage.

A powder of mango seed kernel, lodhra, liquorice, sesame, padmaka, dhataki flowers, silk-cotton gum, bael pulp, priyangu, kutaja bark, ativisha and manjishtha, drunk with whey, is said to…

The child is bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka, and anointed with sesame oil cooked with the group of urines (eight kinds, of the cow and others),…

The child is bathed in a cooled decoction of mango, neem, plantain, kapittha and jambu, and massage with oil cooked with the same trees and pastes of them are also commended. A footnote…

Three decoctions are given for pox: neem, guduchi, red sandal and nut grass with sugar; raisins, haritaki, guduchi, patola, patha, kutki and nut grass; or bhallataka, mango, khas,…

The pox patient is fanned constantly with leaves of ashoka, neem, mango and kadamba, and fumigated with jaggery, sal resin, guggulu, dhyamaka, kushtha and sandal.

A person troubled by worms should avoid curd, jaggery, sugarcane juice, fruits such as mango, all kinds of milk, meat, sweet tastes and food or drink containing any leafy vegetables.

Powder of the mango-kernel and iron powder are taken in equal parts, and triphala powder and nilanjana powder (glossed as blue vitriol or antimony) each equal to these two. The four powders…

A dusting powder for healing burn wounds made of clean unbroken rice, lac and the barks of latex trees, alkali trees, tinduka, mango, bakula, jambu and kadamba, used when the wound is ready…

When the burn wound being healed reaches the stage for powders, clean unbroken rice, lac and the barks of latex trees, alkali trees, tinduka, mango, bakula, jambu and kadamba are finely…

A decoction of jambu, mango, neem, musta, aragvadha and dhataki flowers is reduced to one eighth, strained and cooked until it coats the ladle; the thick preparation is licked.