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A child seized by the Kimpurusha graha is bathed in water boiled with shirisha, tulsi and bilva.

हिन्दी: सिरस का पेड़ · मराठी: शिरीष वृक्ष

An external paste of karanja, langali and shirisha for dushyodara, used alongside prompt treatment with drugs that pacify the three doshas.

Equal parts of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied for kitibha, dadru, kachchhu…

हिन्दी: कदंब वृक्ष, देवताडक तृण, सर्षप, कदम का वृक्ष, सरसों · मराठी: शिरस, कळंब, हळदिवा वृक्ष

हिन्दी: सफेद सरसों, घन वृक्ष, केशर, चोपडा, करंज · मराठी: कमळकेसर, करंज, सिरस, श्वेत साठेसळी, धावडा, पांढरा, पिवळा, तांबडा, खदिर, हरताळ, श्वेत सिरस, सोने

हिन्दी: सरसों · मराठी: शिरस, श्वेत शिरस, देवशिरसी वृक्ष, मोहोरी

Fruits of the milky trees (kṣīrī vṛkṣa)—listed in the commentary as banyan, cluster fig, pīpal's pākhar, phāras and pīpal—are among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to…

People of pitta constitution are said to be afflicted by old age early.

After purification, a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white punarnava, the three pungents, brihati, nirgundi and arka is drunk with the alkali water of shirisha, musta, rava, apamarga…

An alternative paste of bakuchi, rock salt, bhushirisha, kushtha, karavira, the three pungents and chitraka ground in cow urine.

A decoction of sandalwood, indra, asana, tinduka, the group of milky trees and the three fruits, mixed with a paste of nut grass and drunk, is said to remove pitta-type prameha; the…

Decoctions of kasha, darbha, utkata, sugarcane root, pashanabheda, gokshura, sariva, sandalwood, shirisha, dhattura, kurantaka, shami, musta, patha, banana root, vidaraka, nagakesara, ash…

Oil cooked with dry ginger, shirisha seed, drumstick, devadaru, tree turmeric, karanja, apamarga, black salt, asafoetida, kanjira and cumin is given as nasya for vata lodged in the head.

Seeds of bibhitaki, white sesame, kanguka (the commentary: phul priyangu) and ari (a kind of khadira) are each impregnated three times in turn with the juices of shirisha bark, koranta,…

Equal parts of shigru, karanja, chitraka, the three pungents, karavira (kaner), ashvagandha and wild basil, or of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, are ground fine…

The child faints from pains and comes to again and again, moves hands and feet as if dancing, passes much stool and urine while bending and yawning, and vomits froth; this is the terrible…

Bleeding from the nose is said to be stopped by rubbing old ghee on the head, or ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, or by pouring a…

Dushyodara (combined-dosha udara) is treated quickly with drugs that pacify all three doshas, and the abdomen is smeared externally with a paste of karanja, langali and shirisha.

Those bitten by rats are given emesis and purgation according to the provoked dosha with aragvadha, madanaphala, ankola and koshataki; afterwards a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white…

Vata lodged in the head is to be overcome by oiling the head (oil massage and an oil-soaked pad), nasya with oil cooked with dry ginger, shirisha seed, drumstick, devadaru, tree turmeric,…