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Preparation type

Medicated ghee (ghrita)

घृत (औषधि सिद्ध घी) · सिद्धघृत

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Procedure

Rule for cooking medicated oil and ghee

स्नेहपाक विधि · स्नेहपाकविधि

The drug is boiled in four times water and the decoction reduced to a quarter; half that amount of milk and half that amount of ghee or oil are added with drug paste one quarter of the fat,…

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Preparation type

Medicated oil (taila)

तैल (औषधि सिद्ध तेल) · सिद्धतैल

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Condition

Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)

वात रोग · वातव्याधि

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

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Condition

Semen disorders (shukradosha)

शुक्रदोष (वीर्य दोष) · शुक्रदोष

Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…

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Condition

Worm infestation (krimi)

कृमि रोग (पेट के कीड़े) · क्रिमिरोग

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,…

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Condition

Common cold (pratishyaya)

प्रतिश्याय (जुकाम) · प्रतिश्याय

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

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Therapy

Enema therapy (basti)

बस्ति कर्म (एनिमा) · बस्तिकर्म

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

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Question

How is the Mahakshayarogantaka ghee matured and taken?

महाक्षयरोगांतक घृत कैसे तैयार और सेवन किया जाता है?

The medicated ghee is mixed with sugar candy, bamboo manna and vidanga decoction, churned, sealed in an earthen pot and kept in a heap of grain for fifteen days; then one pala is licked…

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Formulation

Kshayarogantaka ghee

क्षयरोगांतक घृत

A ghee cooked with a decoction of sixteen drugs, snuhi latex and a paste of haritaki, sea salt or devadaru and chavya is said to cure consumption, abdominal enlargement, all urinary…

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Formulation

Madhukadi ghee

मधुकादि घृत

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…

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Formulation

Mahakshayarogantaka ghee

महाक्षयरोगांतक घृत

A medicated ghee matured with sugar candy, bamboo manna and vidanga decoction in a grain heap and licked daily with cow's milk is described as greatly improving intellect, aphrodisiac and…

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Procedure

Monthly diet of the pregnant woman

गर्भिणी चर्या

In the first and second months the pregnant woman is fed daily with rice together with sweet and cooling articles (the commentary: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and the like) and butter;…

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Formulation

Mushika-vishaghna ghee (rat poison ghee)

मूषिक विषघ्न घृत · मूषिकविषघ्न घृत

Medicated ghee cooked with curd, milk, a decoction of eight drugs and a paste of five drugs, drunk to pacify rat poison quickly.

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Topic

Now the treatment of kushtha

अब कुष्ठ की चिकित्सा · अथ कुष्ठचिकित्सा

Sub-heading that opens the treatment of kushtha; wholesome vegetables and grains, purification by tissue stage, medicated ghee or oil and powders follow under their own headings.

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Topic

Section on vatarakta

वातरक्त अधिकार · अथ वातरक्ताधिकारः

Opens the section on the treatment of vatarakta, which gives pastes, medicated ghee and milks, oil, diet and a closing summary.

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Procedure

Suturing, joining, compression and healing of wounds

सीना, जोड़ना, दबाना और भरना · सीवन

Wounds needing stitches are sewn with a straight or curved needle. Many wounds at the uru-shira and abdomen are smeared with excellent ghee prepared with joining drugs, brought together,…

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Formulation

Tilvakadi ghee

तिल्वकादि घृत

A medicated ghee made from a paste of tilvaka ground with sour substances, with danti root, kshirakanchuki and trivrit, cooked with curd, triphala decoction and ghee; it is described as a…

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Topic

Tilvakadi ghee

तिल्वकादि घृत

A paste of tilvaka ground with sour substances, with danti root, kshirakanchuki and trivrit, is cooked with curd, triphala decoction and ghee into a medicated ghee said to be a suitable…

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Topic

Treatment of arbuda

अर्बुद की चिकित्सा · अर्बुद चिकित्सा

Arbuda is treated with the suitable drug groups described before, rubbing with rough leaves, bloodletting, daily pastes, unction with medicated ghee or oil, leaf poultices and other calming…

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Topic

Treatment of vata in the trunk (koshtha)

कोष्ठगत वात की चिकित्सा · कोष्ठगत वात चिकित्सा

Major vata diseases located in the trunk (koshtha) are to be treated by the physician who knows the rules for vata diseases with patra lavana and similar preparations, medicated ghee and…

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Procedure

Treatment procedures for arbuda

अर्बुद की चिकित्सा विधियाँ

Arbuda is treated with the suitable drug groups described before, rubbing with rough leaves, bloodletting (opening a vein, says the commentary), daily pastes, unction with medicated ghee or…

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Question

What kinds of measures make up the treatment of the child grahas?

बालग्रहों की चिकित्सा में किस प्रकार के उपाय बताए गए हैं?

Baths in herb decoctions, oil massage, medicated ghee to drink, fumigation, herbal amulets and garlands, offerings (bali) and mantras.

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Formulation

Formula that destroys kapha-type stone

कफाश्मरी नाशक योग · कफाश्मरीनाशक योग

Oil, ghee, milk and food cooked with a group of pungent drugs and salts, an alkaline decoction, drinks and the ground paste of the same drugs are said always to destroy the kapha-type stone.

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