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Heating foods fried in or mixed with mustard oil are listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

Nasya and anointing with sharp mustard oil are given, and the patient is frightened with harmless snakes, grass, fire, water, thieves, elephants and other trained acts.

Leaves of rāī and of white mustard are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

Tender leaves of aragvadha and putikaranja fried in sesame and mustard oils are eaten with salted sour gruel; the text says this can destroy gulma.

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.

Tender leaves of aragvadha and putikaranja, fried in sesame oil and mustard oil, are eaten with salted sour gruel; this is said to be able to destroy gulma.

Pitta is said to be aggravated by excessive grief, anger, fear and joy, by severe fasting and excessive sexual activity, by too much pungent, sour, sharp (alkaline) and salty food, by…

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…

Beneficial nasya and anointing are given with sharp mustard oil, and the insane person is frightened with non-poisonous snakes, grass, fire, water, thieves, elephants and other well-trained…

Mustard with radish seed, rock salt, drumstick (shigru) and the three pungents, together with all hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are used for pressing, plastering and bandaging the…

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

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…

Vijalini seed, vacha, the three pungents, shigru, nimba seed, vidanga, rock salt and mustard are mixed into malkangani oil, or the oil is cooked with them, and used as nasal medication; it…

Vijalini seed, vacha, the three pungents, shigru, nimba seed, vidanga, rock salt and mustard, mixed into malkangani oil or cooked with it, are used as nasal medication to remove worms of…

Coryza is said to ripen quickly with warm water boiled with dry ginger, milk cooked with red shigru and fresh ginger, sharp foods such as mustard, soups of pea, pigeon pea and green gram,…

Mustard, radish seed, rock salt, drumstick and the three pungents, with other hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are applied to prameha boils by pressing, plastering and bandaging so…

Jihvalasaka is scraped (lekhana) until blood flows and the blood is cleansed away; then it is rubbed with mustard, rock salt, pippali, vacha, patola leaves and nimba mixed with ghee and oil.

Small boils that ripen quickly, are very painful and have the size and shape of a mustard seed are called sarshapika by the learned; the verse adds that it is of two kinds.

Jihvalasaka is scraped until it bleeds and cleansed, then rubbed with mustard, rock salt, pippali, vacha, patola leaves and nimba mixed with ghee and oil.