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For piles that are hidden inside, the skilled physician gives the patient every morning a powder of bhallataka and haritaki mixed with jaggery, until a hundred pala of the powder have been…

A powder of blue water lily, lotus and nagakesara, drunk with cold milk and sugarcane juice, is given in raktapitta.

After venesection, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga,…

Amalaki fruit is cooked with goat's milk, dried, powdered and eaten mixed with plenty of sugar. Alternatively the roots of uccaṭā (the commentary: चिंचोकतृण, उटंगण) and gokshura are taken,…

For internal, unseen piles a powder of bhallataka and haritaki mixed with jaggery is eaten every morning until a hundred pala of powder have been taken.

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

Six aromatic and pungent drugs in rising parts from one to six, powdered with an equal weight of sugar, said to destroy kapha and many diseases including raktapitta, pandu, consumption,…

A dusting powder for healing burn wounds made of clean unbroken rice, lac and the barks of latex trees, alkali trees, tinduka, mango, bakula, jambu and kadamba, used when the wound is ready…

In severe insanity and other mental diseases, sneezing is induced constantly, following the rules of the shastra, with powders of very sharp, pungent drugs.

Khadira heartwood powder impregnated with khadira juice, dried and drunk with khadira decoction, called an excellent medicine for kushtha.

Lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell, arimeda with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees with their bark are powdered; the powder is dusted on the…

When the tongue protrudes in excessive emesis, it is rubbed with a powder of rock salt, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper and pressed back inside.

Cinnamon, cardamom, long pepper, vamshalochana and white sugar, each double the one before, powdered and mixed, are eaten for raktapitta, consumption, thirst, breathlessness, hiccup, fever,…

A powder of abhaya, musta and dry ginger eaten with jaggery is said to remove kapha cough quickly.

Equal parts of amalaki, gokshura, dates, priyala, liquorice, blue lotus, bharangi and long pepper are powdered and taken with ghee and sugar on a milk diet; this is said to destroy cough…

A powder of twelve drugs headed by mango seed kernel, drunk with whey, is said to settle diarrhoea in the pakva stage.

Bhūkūṣmāṇḍa (the commentary: जमीनकद्दू, विदारीकंद), seeds of ikṣura (तालमखाना), seeds of guptā (कौंच) and the root of musalī (तालमूली) are powdered and given with goat's milk to drink at…

For a foul-smelling, slimy kapha-type yoni, a powder of aragvadha pulp, triphala and more dhataki flowers is dusted on, and a decoction of these astringent drugs is used to wash it.

Bharangi powder with dry ginger and salt, mixed with clean oil, is called beneficial for shvasa.

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

Bhringaraja (markava) powder taken with cow's urine is the fourth of the four preparations said to remove kapha diseases and excessive urination.

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.

Powders of cardamom, clove, nut grass, sandalwood, nagakesara, puffed rice, kana (cumin according to the commentary) and amla, drunk with jaggery water, are given after purification by…