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Shāli rice is described as sweet and cooling and light in digestion, and therefore as removing pitta, increasing kapha and bringing on much urine.

In parisrava the patient is given a very small meal of warm rice mixed with plenty of ajamoda and shatapushpa powder and ghee, taken with milk.

For all kinds of sinus wounds (nadivrana), rice pudding (payasa) cooked with the root of arka is to be given daily in the diet; the verse says it brings daily relief.

Alternatively, rice pudding (payasa) prepared with the roots of badara, khadira and the large karanja is to be given for sinus wounds.

Goat milk cooked with a liquorice decoction and cooled, with liquorice paste, sugar and ghee, is drunk to destroy vatarakta, raktapitta and many pitta disorders.

Licorice, sandalwood, vetiver, hribera, nut grass, lotus and neem leaf and root, rubbed in rice water and drunk, are said to relieve vishuchika together with thirst.

Vrīhi (glossed as rice paddy) is described as astringent and sweet, destroying pitta and vata, always binding the stool and heavy in digestion.

Wild rice (nīvāra) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

For the distress of over-oleation the patient drinks dry ginger mixed in hot water and is promptly fed rice with mung soup.

After washing a fresh wound well, its opening is filled with ghee, with the healing paste described above or with a paste of well-ground liquorice, to relieve the heat of the wound.

Footnote defining tarpana: parched rice flour (saktu) or other roasted flours soaked in a liquid such as fruit juice, water or milk; here the parched rice flour is soaked in water with the…

A gruel cooked in milk with only a little rice, mixed with that (sugared) ghee and drunk, is said to bring about oleation at once.

Goat's milk cooked with a decoction of liquorice is drunk in the ama stage of pitta diarrhoea.

Green gram cooked as a milk pudding in milk mixed with liquorice decoction, with plenty of ghee, eaten for seven days, is said to remove all voice disorders and make the voice beautiful…

As the alternative in verse 43, licorice powder mixed with an equal part of sugar is taken every morning with cold water, with the same result of removing wrinkles and grey hair and giving…

Liquorice ground in sugarcane juice is said to destroy pitta cough quickly.

For burning of the eyes, a paste of liquorice mixed with buffalo milk, strained, cooled and combined with camphor is to be used, or the same paste with ghee or with paundra sugarcane juice.

A decoction of liquorice, long pepper, vacha and madanaphala is used to give mild emesis even to patients otherwise unfit for emesis, when they suffer severe indigestion, strong poisoning,…

As the alternative in verse 36, milk mixed with licorice powder and plenty of sugar is drunk, with the same claim: even a man without virility could go to a woman seven times every day.

A paste of black antimony (nilanjana), liquorice and tanduliya root, mixed with lodhra, banana and coconut water or decoction and drunk, is said to destroy asrigdara quickly.

For vata colic after dry, cold purifiers, the patient is massaged with oil and sweated, then given an anuvasana enema of oil cooked with a decoction and paste of liquorice (yashti).