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Patha is one of the five plants in whose juice mercury is said to be fixed.

A decoction of patha, agnimantha, both nightshades and dry ginger is drunk in all vata fevers.

A paste of patha, ajamoda, black pepper, amalaki and haritaki is drunk in warm water in the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea.

Water cooked with patha, aragvadha pulp, musta and nimba, with pungent drugs such as dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper added, is said to remove kapha vomiting quickly.

हिन्दी: पाठा, यूथिका, पाढा, जुही · मराठी: पहाडमूळ

हिन्दी: पाठ · मराठी: पाहाड मूळ

Ashmari (urinary stone) is described as kapha that hardens in the bladder into a dense stone. Kapha predominates in every stone, but four kinds are named after the leading factor: kapha,…

Aśmantaka fruit (glossed पाषाणभेद in the commentary) is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

The introduction says nidāna, pūrvarūpa (prodromal signs), rūpa (signs), upaśaya and saṁprāpti are called the five means of diagnosis (nidāna-pañcaka), and that diseases are to be examined…

The author calls the haritaki kalpa the one that gives people freedom from fear (abhaya), and tells it first.

Tilvaka, rendered lodh in the commentary, is counted among the latex (milk) poisons.

In the mica process the text names yellow mica (hemabhraka) together with patalika and patuvajraka.

Fruits of the pāṭalī tree (pāḍal) are listed among fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly increasing vata and countering…

The introduction says the saṁprāpti (pathology) of a disease is to be known through the four means just described: its cause, prodromal signs, signs and upaśaya.

Paṭola (परवल) is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

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

Every grain should be used after carefully examining the person's constitution, region, season, disease and so on, choosing what suits them.