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Drinking milk cooked with red shigru and fresh ginger is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

For vata-type mahodara the abdomen is smeared with oil and a poultice of shigru roots and both karanjas cooked in milk and curd is bound on with leaves.

In vata-type mahodara sudation is given always and repeatedly, and the patient is fed milk and similar food cooked with dry ginger, rock salt and shigru roots.

The kapha-type udara patient is always fed food with milk cooked in the juice of shigru and ginger, with astringent, bitter and very pungent vegetables.

After the gargle, mouthfuls (kavala) of shigru root, fresh ginger, kushtha and rock salt are held in kapha-type abhishyanda.

For kapha-caused eye diseases the text especially recommends the putapaka juices of tender shigru shoots and the chief jati (jasmine) leaves.

In kapha-dominant ear disease, juice of shigru root and of ginger with rock salt is heated and poured into the ear.

A powder of shigru, pippalimula, bibhitaki, haritaki, black pepper, long pepper, dry ginger, cardamom and vidanga, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

Drumstick (सेंजन) leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

A paste of shigru root, trikatu and rock salt drunk with a decoction of ajamoda or of chitraka, for scrotal enlargement.

हिन्दी: सैंजिने का पेड़ · मराठी: श्वेत शेगवा, काळा शेगवा, हरित शाक

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru is given to the mahodara patient to drink, who is then purged with tilvaka ghee and given a decoction enema with…

The use of varuna, licorice and shigru is said to be unfailing and always to calm severe internal vidradhi; the form of the preparation is not stated.

Flowers of drumstick, golden shower, lisoḍā, silk-cotton, śamī (chhauṅkarā), lotus, tamarind, kanyā (glossed large cardamom or vārāhīkanda), agastya, sunn hemp, varuṇa and neem are said to…

हिन्दी: मूली · मराठी: मूळा, शेंडी मुळा, शिग्रुमूळ, कोनफळ, विषविशेष

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

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.

A powder of equal parts of pippali, rock salt, chitraka and yavakshara, licked daily with shigru juice for liver and spleen udara.

The abdomen is oiled and a poultice of shigru roots and both karanjas cooked in milk and curd is bound on it with vata-relieving leaves; sudation is given repeatedly, and food such as milk…

A paste of bael, chitraka, pippalimula, renuka seed, mahashravani and gorakhmundi, realgar, shigru root, agnimantha, both kinds of arka, vacha, the three pungents, turmeric, mustard, onion…

Mustard with radish seed, rock salt, drumstick (shigru) and the three pungents, together with all hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are used for pressing, plastering and bandaging the…

Oil, ghee, milk and food cooked with the paste and decoction of triphala, trikatu, shigru, chitraka root, vidanga, kushtha, varuna, large and small cardamom and bida, black and rock salts,…

Gargling (gandusha) with well-ground mustard in warm water is always to be done, and afterwards mouthfuls (kavala) of shigru root, fresh ginger, kushtha and rock salt are held. The…

Ghee with an equal part of oil is cooked with decoction and paste of kemuka, ankola fruit, ginger juice, jatamamsi, shigru juice, devadaru, bamboo bark, garlic, asafoetida, rock salt, the…