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The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Fruits of the milky trees (kṣīrī vṛkṣa)—listed in the commentary as banyan, cluster fig, pīpal's pākhar, phāras and pīpal—are among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to…

For parikartika after a very dry purifier, an asthapana enema of milk mixed with oil, ghee and liquorice is given, then anuvasana enemas of ghee and milk (daily, per the verse), and the…

Milk drunk warm straight from the udder (dhāroṣṇa) is said to be like nectar; milk boiled and drunk warm removes kapha and vata; boiled and cooled it calms pitta; milk taken in any other…

Ghee prepared with the milky-sap trees such as gular and with sweet drugs is given to the child to drink mixed with milk.

For six months afterwards the jalodara patient eats only with lukewarm milk; milk is to be used in all treatments of mahodara.

As the alternative in verse 36, milk mixed with licorice powder and plenty of sugar is drunk, with the same claim: even a man without virility could go to a woman seven times every day.

All kinds of snuhī (thūhar) are counted among the latex (milk) poisons.

Milk cooked with water boiled with the roots of bilva, agnimantha, the two brihatis and tuntuka, given warm with ghee, is said to remove strong vata vomiting.

Drinking milk cooked with red shigru and fresh ginger is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Milk cooked with rock salt, asafoetida, black pepper, ativisha, ajamoda and dry ginger is drunk for diarrhoea.

Milk cooked with trivrit, the three myrobalans and the three pungents is drunk and is said to settle diarrhoea quickly.

In a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long pepper is drunk.

In vata cough a milk preparation such as kheer, or milk alone, may be drunk.

Milk properly prepared with ajamoda and rock salt is named as wholesome food in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever.

In pitta hoarseness milk mixed with ghee and jaggery should be drunk.

Milk with shatapushpa (saunf in the commentary) is drunk for diarrhoea.

Kapittha, shali rice, khas and hribera; or peas, kaleyaka and jasmine leaves; or sesame and dark sandal, ground in milk and mixed with cow's ghee, are applied to make the skin its normal…

The kapha-type udara patient is always fed food with milk cooked in the juice of shigru and ginger, with astringent, bitter and very pungent vegetables.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

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

Milk boiled with the bark of red ashvattha is drunk. Of this and of the licorice milk given as the alternative in the same verse, the text says that even a man without virility, burning…