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A decoction of ginger, neem and aragvadha is drunk in all vata fevers.

Dry ginger alone, ground with water, is drunk in the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea.

A collyrium of dry ginger powder ground with breast milk, ghee, oil, rock salt and citron juice, described as excellent for shushkakshipaka.

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

A paste of dry ginger mixed in hot water is drunk to increase the digestive fire.

Pastes of the same drugs used for the nasya oil are applied for vata lodged in the head.

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.

A paste of dry ginger, haritaki and rock salt taken with hot water is said to purge and remove vata lodged in the colon.

Drinking warm water boiled with dry ginger is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

हिन्दी: सोंठ · मराठी: गलशुंठीरोग, सुंठ

Loss of touch sensation is among the signs of aggravated kapha.

White punarnavā is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

A disease of the white of the eye marked by many red, smooth dots.

हिन्दी: हडसंकरी · मराठी: शुंडी, नदीवड

हिन्दी: सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल · मराठी: सूंठ, मिरी, पिंपळी

हिन्दी: गोखुरू का पेड़ · मराठी: सूंठ, गुळवेल, रिंगणी, गोखरूं

हिन्दी: सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल · मराठी: सुंठ, मिरी, पिंपळी, त्रिकटु

हिन्दी: सोंठ, मोथा, नारंगी · मराठी: पडवळ, सुंठ, नागरमोथ

हिन्दी: भुंजितखड, सोंठ, लहसुन, गेंठी, वच्छनाभ विष, पीपला, अतीस · मराठी: श्वेत लसुण, सुंठ, भुईतरवड, बचनाग, विष, पिंपळी, अतिविष