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Sand, with coarse grains and the like, is named as material for the warm bed used for sudation.

Sandalwood fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Sandal, agaru, tamala leaf, talisa, kushtha and khadira with hair, body hair, nails and human bone are powdered, mixed with ghee and used to fumigate the child at both twilights.

For an even burn the text says to smear ghee repeatedly and then apply a paste of sandalwood, bark of latex-bearing trees, sesame, liquorice and rice, ground in milk or sugarcane juice or…

The verse counts, in order, three hundred bones and three hundred joints, followed by nine hundred sinews, seven hundred veins and five hundred muscles.

Sesame oil cooked with decoctions and pastes of all vata-reducing trees, passed through burnt earth and recovered, then cooked a thousand times with sour liquids, curd, milk and…

From here the author will describe the diseases located in the junctions (sandhi), eyelids (vartma) and other parts of the eye, separately with their signs, number, curability and treatment.

Red sandal rubbed down slowly with sour gruel, water, ghee, oil, sour fruit juice and buttermilk and applied as a collyrium is said to be very beneficial for the eyes.

A thousand pippalis impregnated with snuhi latex, said to conquer mahodara quickly.

The commentary adds bathing the raktapitta patient with a decoction of red sandalwood, nut grass and vetiver.

For menstrual blood that is foul-smelling and like pus or marrow, a decoction of devadaru, mango, sarala, agaru and sandalwood is drunk.

Footnotes list the eight substances of worship (water, sandal, unbroken rice, flowers, food offering, lamp, incense and fruit) and the five paramesthis (arhat, siddha, acharya, upadhyaya…

Kukundara, beside the spine on the outer flanks, brings swelling or loss of movement of the lower body and death; nitamba, above the hip blades, withering of the lower body and death;…

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.

A paste of blue lotus, lotus, nagakesara and sandal is applied against the burning of pox.

A decoction of neem, guduchi, red sandal and nut grass, mixed with sugar, is drunk by the pox patient.

Ground is burnt with dried vata-reducing trees, sesame oil cooked with their decoction and paste is poured on it and left overnight, and the oil-soaked earth is boiled next day to recover…

Parshvasandhi, two marmas between the hip and the ribs; a blow there fills the abdomen with blood and causes death.

Bael fruit heads a list of fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Wounds needing stitches are sewn with a straight or curved needle. Many wounds at the uru-shira and abdomen are smeared with excellent ghee prepared with joining drugs, brought together,…

If the joints swell, they are treated as described for swelling and bound with leaves of the dhamana (reed) plant or with bandages; if the swelling ripens it is quickly incised and treated…