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Pigeon pea (āḍhakī, arhar) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Alternatively the patient drinks the pleasant soup (juice) of pigeon pea prepared with pungent, hot drugs, which is called wholesome.

As another diet once the ghee is digested, light and warm food is given as suitable with soups of horse gram, mung or pigeon pea and a suitable khala.

Pigeon pea is said to be most wholesome for kapha and pitta while slightly provoking vata; green gram is similar, removes fever and suits every kind of diarrhoea; the soup (dāl) of these is…

The soup (sūpa) of these pulses, pigeon pea and green gram, is said to be especially wholesome; the commentary adds that their dāl is especially beneficial in fever and diarrhoea.

Green gram (mudga) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

The enema apparatus has a leak-proof bag of strong, soft leather holding eight kudava and a nozzle 6, 8 or 10 angula long for children, youths and young adults. Near the tip it has a round…

Vāta is said to be aggravated by excessive exercise and sexual activity, long journeys on foot, riding, carrying loads, wrong times of sleep, immersion in water and blows of wind; by…

The patient with the eye disease should drink a little lukewarm water boiled with kushtha, haritaki and musta, or the pleasant soup of pigeon pea (adhaki) prepared with pungent, hot drugs,…

The patient is given a light meal once a day of soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee and sour fruits, increasing step by step to full meals. Wound treatment is applied properly,…

Once the drunk ghee is digested, the person is given yavagu cooked with coriander and neem, or a yavagu prepared with drugs suited to the dosha, or light warm food with soups of horse gram,…

The physician should feed the patient on priyangu, wild kodo millet, rice flour, foxtail millet, wheat and barley, with astringent, bitter and pungent things, and with pigeon pea, peas and…

After purification the prameha patient is fed on priyangu, wild kodo millet, rice flour, foxtail millet, wheat and barley, with astringent, bitter and pungent things, and with pigeon pea,…

For very heavy bleeding, a very dry powder of lac, bibhitaka, black gram and pigeon pea, mixed with plenty of ash of silk cloth, is put on the place to stop the blood.

The nozzle is to be made of gold, fine silver, copper, wood and the like, unbroken, with a smooth ball at its mouth; the opening inside the tip is the size of a cooked mung bean, pigeon pea…

Aggravated kapha is said to be calmed by alkalis, the group of hot substances, light and clear food and drink in small amounts, soups of horse gram and mung, pungent soups of peas and…

A thick paste of ground green gram, pigeon pea, sesame, peas, lentils, black gram, wheat, rice and barley with very cool ghee, jaggery, sugarcane juice and milk is applied in vatarakta with…

In vatarakta with strong pitta, a thick paste of ground green gram, pigeon pea, sesame, peas, lentils, black gram, wheat, rice and barley, mixed with very cool ghee, jaggery, sugarcane…

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,…

Leaves of bandhūka (dupahariyā), bhṛgu, wild turmeric, soapnut, dalitā, yellow devadālī, mūṣākarṇī, pigeon pea, kacūra, the kusum tree, taralī (a thorny tree), vaṃśinī, matsyākṣī, chickpea…

Soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee, and sour fruits, are given as a light meal once a day, and the food is then increased step by step until full meals are eaten.

Sharp foods such as mustard and soups made of kala (glossed jujube), pea, pigeon pea and green gram are said to make coryza ripen quickly.