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The sticky juice of palasha seeds is said to kill mercury quickly.

For semen that is full of knots, thick, slimy and pale, ghee prepared with the ash of palasha, khadira and arjuna is drunk.

Palasha gum ground with milk and mixed with sugar, used as eye drops (ashchyotana); said to remove quickly all pitta-born eye diseases and amladhyushita.

Phalsa (the commentary's gloss for the verse word pārāvata) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause…

An alkali paste made from palasha ash water with turmeric, house soot, kushtha, black salt and the three pungents, said to remove kushtha.

हिन्दी: ढाक वृक्ष, नागकेशर वृक्ष, धतूरे का वृक्ष, लाल कचनार वृक्ष, कलंबक, पीला चन्दन, चंपा वृक्ष, कसौंदी वृक्ष, कणगूगल, पलासमेद · मराठी: राळ, सोनकमळ, नागकेशर, श्वेत धोत्रा, पीत कोरंटा, काळा…

हिन्दी: पलाश वृक्ष, नन्दी वृक्ष, ढाक वृक्ष, तुन वृक्ष · मराठी: पळस

हिन्दी: पालसा, परुषा · मराठी: फालसा, भुयधामण

हिन्दी: ढाक, पलास वृक्ष · मराठी: फळस, कापुरकाचरी, तमालपत्र, पानें, भुयकोहळा, हिरवा

हिन्दी: पालसा, दरुषा · मराठी: पारवा, फालसा, लोखंड, साराग्ल, निळा सुरमा, अश्वक्षुरा, एवनी वृक्ष

हिन्दी: फलाश वृक्ष, करंज वृक्ष · मराठी: फलाश वृक्ष, करंज वृक्ष

हिन्दी: ढाक का पेड़, चौलाई का पाक · मराठी: तांदुळजा, पळस

Palasha ash is stirred into water, filtered and boiled again; turmeric, house soot, kushtha, black salt and the three pungents are added and the mixture is applied, which the text says…

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed into the strained water of palasha ash and drunk against plihodara.

Bitter, astringent, dried and dry vegetables are listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Jackfruit (panasa, कटहर) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

The introduction says that doṣas accumulated in excess take the form of mala, and that substances useless for the body's work, which soil the body and cause distress, are also called mala;…

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.

Spinach, of two kinds (pālaka-dvaya), is named among greens that provoke kapha.

After the bowel is cleansed, the abdomen is smeared with ghee and a poultice cooked with milk is bound on it with leaves; food rich in lukewarm milk with bitter vegetables is given.

Pālaka, one of the tuber poisons, is said to make a person suddenly weak, with throat, breath and speech all obstructed.