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In its survey of the Vedic period the introduction says the story of the sage Cyavana supports a formula (yoga) that restores youth.

A regimen of rice, ghee, curd, sugarcane products such as jaggery and milk, seasonal purification of the body by emesis, purgation and the like, self-restraint, exercise, compassion for all…

The after-drink for a rasāyana is the decoction of the same drug, as triphala decoction with the triphala rasāyana; or decoctions of bhallātaka, guḍūcī, grapes or triphala, which suit…

One who seeks health through medicine should give up alcohol, meat, astringent, pungent, salty, alkaline, dry and sour things, keep free of anger, exertion, intercourse, sun, wind,…

Whatever is cooling, unctuous and sweet is called aphrodisiac by the great sages. Since a healthy body is needed to protect the self, the author turns to the rasāyanas, very potent formulas…

Not food: Brahma and the others did not eat it, nourishment runs from milk to food, children are first given light food with milk at six months, and meat is very incompatible with milk. Not…

Opening lines of the sixth chapter, whose running head names it Rasāyanavidhi. It opens with the section on the daily regimen: cleaning the teeth, oiling and massage, exercise, rubbing with…

Bakuchi seed powder with jaggery is put with great care into an iron pot and kept in grain in the ground for seven nights. Then, with the doshas removed (the commentary: purified by emesis,…

A footnote to the triphala rasāyana says the verse does not state the numbers of amalaki and bibhitaki properly, but other medical works say that where triphala is mentioned generally it is…

It is said to destroy strong rajayakshma (kshaya), dreadful piles and all diseases; the footnote says the root is purified by keeping it in lime water.

The oil of bhallataka is extracted and taken for one month by the same increasing and decreasing schedule; the text says this adds a hundred years to life, and each further month of use…

Well-ripened large bhallataka nuts are purified, dried and split, and the kernels taken out; a quarter kernel is eaten on the first day, a half on the second, three quarters on the third,…

Opening lines of the sixth chapter, whose running head names it Rasāyanavidhi. It opens with the section on the daily regimen: cleaning the teeth, oiling and massage, exercise, rubbing with…

Purified chitraka root is boiled by the decoction method; into the decoction pure best sugar and burnt shankhanabhi are put at once, it is quickly strained and phanita is added. When it has…

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.110), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Gandhaka rasāyana for giddiness and other vāta disorders. Six pala of powdered sulphur, the three fruits,…

The vajra rasayana, made with the vajra drugs, is taken mixed with ghee steadily for six months; each day, once it is digested, food mixed with ghee and milk is eaten together with other…

The editor quotes Samantabhadra's verse from the Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa on the virtues of rasasindūra made from purified mercury. As far as the converted text can be read, it is said to…

Bakuchi seed powder with jaggery is kept in an iron pot in grain in the ground for seven nights; after purification, a dose the size of a bibhitaki fruit is taken daily with cold water and…

Once the after-drink is digested, food is taken with milk, or with ghee and green-gram soup, avoiding sea salt and other sharp things; this is said to remove great diseases and give many…

Bala root, a tulā of it in the verse, is dried well and powdered. After purifying the body (the commentary: by emesis and the like), half a pala of it (the commentary: two tolas) is taken…

Bala root, dried and powdered, is taken daily after purification of the body (the commentary: by emesis and the like), half a pala (the commentary: two tolas) with milk, with food of ghee…

Bhallataka oil taken for a month by the same increasing and decreasing schedule is said to add a hundred years to life, and each further month of use another hundred years.

Kernels of well-ripened, purified bhallataka nuts are eaten on a schedule: a quarter, a half and three quarters of a kernel on the first three days, one to five kernels on days four to…