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For all kinds of swelling (vidradhi), a poultice of drugs of the hot group is said to be the first and best measure, as taught by Jinendra; with it an unripe swelling subsides quickly, and…

Bandhana (upanaha) sweating is a poultice such as payasa cooked with heating drugs, covered with leaves or cloth and tied on. Drava sweating is seating the patient in a large vessel such as…

A poultice of oil, milk, ghee, rock salt and vata-reducing drugs cooked to the thickness of rice pudding, bound over the bhagandara wound with leaves and cloth.

A drug mass cooked with vata-reducing drugs, oil, buttermilk, curd, milk and sour substances is spread thickly on the part, and a blanket, cloth or vata-reducing leaves such as castor and…

Bandhana sweating is tying on a poultice of payasa or similar preparations cooked with heating drugs, covered with leaves, cloth and the like. The commentary calls it vata-destroying.

Oil, milk, ghee, rock salt and vata-reducing drugs are cooked together until thick like rice pudding (payasa); this poultice is bound over the bhagandara wound with leaves and cloth, as is…

For vata-type mahodara the abdomen is smeared with oil and a poultice of shigru roots and both karanjas cooked in milk and curd is bound on with leaves.

Galaganda is treated continuously with abundant emesis, nasal medication, sudation and strong poultices; when it has ripened it is incised and cleansing and healing measures are applied…

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.

A poultice cooked with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on, and…

In puyalasa blood should be let quickly, and a poultice (upanaha) of leaves is also proper.

A poultice prepared with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on,…

Trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali, applied daily as a paste with warm leaves bound over it.

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram cooked with milk, ghee and oil are bound with leaves over the place of severe pain in vatarakta.

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram are cooked with milk, ghee and oil and bound with leaves wherever the pain is severe; when the doshas are greatly…

Trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali are applied daily as a paste with warm leaves bound over it; the text says this calms aggravated shlipada.

A paste of trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali applied daily, with warm leaves bound over it, is said to calm aggravated shlipada; one that has grown excessively is to be…

Granthi are nodules arising from vitiated blood, the doshas, flesh, fat and vessels, treated by dosha and tissue with drugs, pastes and poultices; siraja granthi is incurable when immobile…

Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

Upadamsha is described as a swelling arising on the penis, treated like the kinds of scrotal enlargement according to dosha; a footnote lists its causes and five kinds, and verse 5 gives…