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Śatāvarī shoots are listed among sprout vegetables described as cold, kapha-producing, strongly aphrodisiac, heavy, pitta-calming, removing heat of the blood, clearing the bowels and…

हिन्दी: शतावर, कचूर · मराठी: महाशतावरी, सहस्त्रमुळी, लघु शतावरी, शतमुळी

A milk pudding (payasa) of ripe amalaki fruit and shatavari root with cow's ghee, taken always, is said to make both eyes keen like those of Garuda.

Sahachari (the commentary: yellow katasaraiya) is one of the five plants in whose juice mercury is said to be fixed.

Bitter, astringent, dried and dry vegetables are listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

हिन्दी: सेमर का वृक्ष · मराठी: देवडंगरी, सांवरी, पाल, कुक्कुटांडसदृश कंद, चुंच

हिन्दी: जटामासी, बालछड़, शंकरजटा, शतावर, कैछ वृक्ष की जड़ · मराठी: सुगंध जटामांसी, जटामांसी, पारंब्या, ईश्वरी शेंडी, वृक्षमूळ

हिन्दी: दूब, बज, शतावर · मराठी: महाशतावरी

हिन्दी: सौंफ, सतावर · मराठी: बडीशोप, लघु शतावरी

हिन्दी: पीली कटसरैया · मराठी: पीतकोरंटा

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

The child is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha, or with warm kanji; massaged with oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu,…

Cooked foods prepared with bhallataka, ashvagandha, black gram, gokshura, snuhi and shatavari are also to be eaten by the consumptive.

The consumptive may drink ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa (called vrisha or vasa ghee), eat cakes (pua) of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice flour, and eat…

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

Kapikacchu seeds, bala, atibala, licorice, kokilaksha, gokshura, shatavari, prabhu (?), lotus stalk, kaseru, blue lotus, lotus, jatiphala, shalaparni and prishniparni in equal parts are…

A paste of nut grass, chironji, liquorice, mango bark, shalaparni, priyangu, durva, lotus, white lotus, shatavari, chirata, red sandalwood, kaseru, kushtha and tree turmeric is applied in…

In vatarakta from all three doshas a paste is applied of nut grass, chironji, liquorice, mango bark, shalaparni, priyangu, durva, lotus, white lotus, shatavari, chirata, red sandalwood,…

By the method of the previous oil, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and…

By the same method, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and mashaparni. A…