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The pomegranate tree is named among the five lavaṇī plants growing by the sea, said to remove vata, produce kapha, pitta and blood, cause wasting, digest with difficulty and suit urinary…

Ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of nichula (hijjala and cane) together with breast milk, given as nasya, is said to stop bleeding from the nose; the ghees described earlier…

Ambashthika, a juicy pomegranate and tinduka cooked in buttermilk and drunk are said to relieve diarrhoea at once.

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

Having given formulas for all vata and kapha poisons, the text now gives very cooling ones for pitta poisons: sariva, jatamamsi, raisins, clove, cinnamon, shyama, somalata, shallaki,…

A powder of juicy pomegranate seeds, cumin, dry ginger, long pepper and salt, taken daily in sour gruel, is said to remove even severe mutrakricchra and its pain.

Juicy pomegranate seeds, cumin, dry ginger, long pepper and salt are powdered and taken daily in sour gruel; it is said to remove even severe mutrakricchra.

The silk-cotton tree, lentil, the kachnār tree, the pomegranate tree and the kaṭāī plant are called the five lavaṇī plants, which always grow on the seashore.

Marks of a long life are listed: soft, fleshy, glossy hands and feet like aśoka shoots or lotuses with many auspicious lines; long, fleshy ears; eyes like blue lotuses; teeth like pearls or…

The tops of the date, sarja, pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees, ground in banana juice with ghee and buffalo milk (curd in the commentary), or liquorice, sandalwood and sariva…

To calm raktapitta, the tops of the date, sal-resin (sarja), pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees are ground in banana juice and mixed with ghee and buffalo milk (curd, says the…

For bleeding from the nose the commentary gives as nasya ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, or ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of…

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…

Mango, āmrātaka (ambāḍā), citron, lakuca (baḍhar), old tamarind, pomegranate, the small, large and bush jujubes, cavya, phalsa, emblic, chironji, karavandī, cane, jīva, āmraka, sour…

Five 'lavaṇī' plants growing on the seashore, glossed as silk-cotton, lentil, kachnār, pomegranate and kaṭāī, are said to remove vata, produce kapha, pitta and blood, cause wasting (śoṣa),…

A variant of the same saktu, mixed with trijataka, dry ginger and the bhallataka group, impregnated with a decoction of neem, asana and aragvadha, mixed with sugar, amalaki, sour fruits,…

A painless pimple in the eyelid shaped like the seed of the kumbhika fruit, which swells, bursts discharging pus and swells again, is the kapha disease called kumbhika. A footnote says…

A footnote quoting Rasendrasarasangraha lists the sour group as amlavetasa, jambira lemon, citron, chickpea alkali, orange, tintidika, tamarind fruit, lemon, changeri, sour pomegranate and…

Bark of cinnamon (as the commentary reads tvak), aralu, kutaja, mango, kadamba and jambu is ground with thick rice water, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked by the putapaka method;…