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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.

An eyelid disease with many red, mustard-seed-like pimples.

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

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Graha affliction is described as seizure by spirit beings (vyantaras and grahas), who the text says trouble people from enmity, for play or wishing to kill, and enter those who neglect…

Mustard seeds mixed with jaggery are eaten by the patient with indigestion.

The whole य section, eight entries on PDF 750: यव (जौ, इन्द्रजौ, जवाखार and a measure of six mustard seeds), यवक्षार and यावशूक (जवाखार, with the Bengali name सोरा), यवागू (a thin rice…

According to the dosha involved, the eruptions are shaped like sand grains, mustard seeds or lentils, or like all kinds of grains and split pulses, and in due time turn yellow like ripe…

Many red pimples like mustard seeds in the eyelid, with itching, discharge, heaviness and pain, are called pothaki.

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.

A paste of bael, chitraka, pippalimula, renuka seed, mahashravani and gorakhmundi, realgar, shigru root, agnimantha, both kinds of arka, vacha, the three pungents, turmeric, mustard, onion…

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…

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…

Fumigation with cow horn (named in the verse), asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, good dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is…

A fumigation of cow horn, asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is said to destroy graha fever…

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…

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.

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…

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…