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White punarnavā is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

The eye obstructed by kapha is irrigated with juice from the root of punarnava mixed with rock salt; the commentary renders the juice as that of dry ginger.

हिन्दी: विष, खपरा, रक्तपुनर्नवा · मराठी: श्वेत पुनर्नवा, रक्त पुनर्नवा, नील पुनर्नवा, खापन्या

हिन्दी: बथुआ शाक, वसु, कृष्णागरु, पुनर्नवा · मराठी: चाकवत, जीवशाक, राजार्क

White punarnava, brihati, guduchi, linseed (verse only), castor, liquorice, drumstick, sesame and ikshura, ground with alkali and cow's urine into a lukewarm paste, are applied in vatarakta…

In vatarakta with strong kapha, white punarnava, brihati, guduchi, castor, liquorice, drumstick, sesame and ikshura (gokshura in the commentary), with linseed in the verse, are ground with…

A child seized by the Revati graha is bathed with water prepared with the roots of sariva, ashvagandha, meshashringi and punarnava and purified with mantras.

The piles patient is given no food but only very sour buttermilk to drink; alternatively, water prepared with ginger, kutaja, chitraka and punarnava, or milk cooked with these drugs.

Castor oil cooked a hundred times with milk, ginger juice and jati juice, or prepared with the juice of black shigru or of punarnava, said to destroy mahodara.

Yellow mica (hemabhraka), patalika and patuvajraka are mixed with rock salt, borax, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper and ground well with the juice of punarnava (vishakhapara); this…

The divine herbs named in the verse are powdered; the commentary lists guḍūcī, gokshura, vidhārā, śatāvarī, black agaru, bhallātaka, red punarnavā, white punarnavā, vārāhīkanda and large…

The child is bathed with mantra-purified water prepared with the roots of sariva, ashvagandha, meshashringi and punarnava, massaged with oil prepared with kushtha and sal resin, and given…

The piles patient is given no food but only very sour buttermilk; or he is given water prepared with ginger, kutaja (कूट in the commentary), chitraka and punarnava, or milk cooked with…

Boiled milk is mixed with sugar, punarnava root powder, black pepper, asafoetida and a little buttermilk and set aside; next day the consumptive eats his meal with this fragrant curd.

Repeated eye drops (ashchyotana) that are very warm and contain rock salt are said to be always excellent, and the kapha-obstructed eye is irrigated with the juice of punarnava root mixed…

The author announces that he will now briefly set out the special procedures, that is the kalpas, of kshara, triphala, the chitraka group, white ashvagandha, guduchi, punarnava and other…

Boiled milk set with sugar, punarnava root powder, black pepper, asafoetida and a little buttermilk becomes a fragrant curd with which the consumptive eats his meal the next day.

After purification, a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white punarnava, the three pungents, brihati, nirgundi and arka is drunk with the alkali water of shirisha, musta, rava, apamarga…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka (gokhuru in the commentary), mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal amount…

Gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya (the commentary: bhuri charila, a kind of fragrant substance), their flowers; guduchi, hata (shaivala), mahanila, vanamallika, nili…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka, mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal weight of sea salt, sealed in an…

The decoction described above (of ginger, kutaja, chitraka and punarnava) is boiled down into a phanitaka, a paste of chitraka, trikatu, cumin, ajwain, pippalimula and chavya is added, and…

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,…