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Herb
Snuhi (milk hedge)
थूहर (स्नुही) · स्नुही
All kinds of snuhī (thūhar) are counted among the latex (milk) poisons.
Remedy
Paste of snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric
थूहर के दूध का लेप · वज्रवृक्षपयोलेप
Chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric powder mixed in snuhi latex are applied as a paste; the text says piles subside.
Formulation
Purgative ghee with milk-hedge latex for vata in the colon (unnamed)
पक्वाशयगत वात के लिए विरेचन घृत
Cow's ghee cooked with a paste of milk-hedge (snuhi) latex and the three pungents and with cow's milk is given in lukewarm salted water, after oleation and sudation, to purge and so calm…
Formulation
Oil or ghee cooked in snuhi latex
थूहर के दूध में पका तेल या घी · स्नुहीपय:सिद्ध तैल या घृत
Oil, or likewise ghee, cooked in snuhi latex and mixed with plenty of salt (rock salt in the commentary) is applied with a leaf bound over; the text says this too calms valmikapada.
Glossary entry
स्नुही
सेहुंड वृक्ष
हिन्दी: सेहुंड वृक्ष · मराठी: निवडुंग
Remedy
A thousand pippalis impregnated with snuhi latex
स्नुही-भावित सहस्र पिप्पली
A thousand pippalis impregnated with snuhi latex, said to conquer mahodara quickly.
Formulation
Alkali ghee-oil oleation and snuhi purgation in kapha-type udara
कफोदर में क्षारादि घृत-तैल और स्नुही विरेचन
The kapha-type udara patient is oleated with ghee and oil cooked with bitter, astringent and drying drugs, the three pungents and the group of alkalis, and then purged with snuhi latex.
Remedy
Paste of kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt in cow urine
कूठ, चित्रक, थूहर और काला नमक का गोमूत्र में लेप · कुष्ठचित्रकसुधारुचक लेप
Kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt are pounded and ground with cow urine and applied as a paste on piles.
Glossary entry
वज्रवृक्ष
थूहड का वृक्ष
हिन्दी: थूहड का वृक्ष, स्नुही वृक्ष · मराठी: निवडुंग, स्नुही वृक्ष
Formulation
Naracha ghee
नाराच घृत
A purgative ghee from butter churned out of curd set from cow milk boiled with snuhi latex, cooked again with snuhi latex; drunk for half a month or a month, it is called the best of ghees…
Topic
Pastes that destroy piles
अर्शघ्न लेप
Pastes for piles: arka latex with orpiment and turmeric powder; snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric; pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse)…
Formulation
Salt cooked in decoction
क्वाथ सिद्ध लवण · क्वाथसिद्धलवण
Salt cooked in a decoction of equal parts of karanja, neem, patola leaves, patala, aragvadha pulp, triphala and chitraka, mixed with snuhi latex, is said to remove udara and many other…
Formulation
Healing wick
रोपण बत्ती · रोपण वर्तिका
A wick made with the latex of snuhi, arka and kurantaka, karanja, langali, rock salt, ankola and manahshila is placed in foul wounds and sinus tracts to heal them.
Question
How is naracha ghee prepared, and how long is it taken?
नाराच घृत कैसे बनाया जाता है और कितने समय लिया जाता है?
Cow milk four times the snuhi latex is boiled with it, set into curd with buttermilk and churned; the butter is cooked again with snuhi latex. It is drunk for half a month or a month.
Formulation
Kshayarogantaka ghee
क्षयरोगांतक घृत
A ghee cooked with a decoction of sixteen drugs, snuhi latex and a paste of haritaki, sea salt or devadaru and chavya is said to cure consumption, abdominal enlargement, all urinary…
Formulation
Mutravartika suppository
मूत्रवर्तिका
A suppository of purifying drugs, pungent drugs and salts ground with cow urine and snuhi latex, placed in the anus against udara.
Topic
Naracha ghee
नाराच घृत
Cow milk four times the amount of snuhi latex is boiled, set into curd with buttermilk and churned; the butter taken out is cooked again with snuhi latex. This naracha ghee, called the best…
Formulation
Nidigdhikadi ghee
निदिग्धिकादि घृत
Ghee cooked with a decoction of seven plants headed by nidigdhika and a paste of vidanga, patha and snuhi latex, given to the patient with poison-caused udara.
Formulation
Cooked foods with bhallataka and ashvagandha
भिलावा-असगंध आदि से पक्व भक्ष्य
Cooked foods prepared with bhallataka, ashvagandha, black gram, gokshura, snuhi and shatavari are also to be eaten by the consumptive.
Topic
Further recipes against consumption
क्षयनाशक अन्य योग · क्षयनाशक योगांतर
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…
Topic
Ghee that destroys rat poison
मूषक विषघ्न घृत · मूषिकविषघ्न घृत
One prastha of ghee is cooked by rule with one prastha each of curd and milk, four parts of a decoction of snuhi, arka, white arka, gojihva, aragvadha, kutaja, kantakari and karanja, and a…
Topic
Healing wick
रोपण वर्तिका (बत्ती) · रोपण वर्तिका
A wick made with the latex of snuhi, arka and kurantaka together with karanja, langali (glory lily), rock salt, ankola and manahshila, placed in the wound, is said to destroy foul wounds…
Topic
Heartwood, exudate, bark, latex and mineral poisons
सार, निर्यास, छाल, दूध और धातु विष · सार-निर्यास-त्वक्-धातु विष वर्णन
The heartwood, exudate and bark of the cilla tree are poisonous (a variant reads billa). Arka, tilvaka (rendered lodh) and all kinds of snuhī are latex poisons. Orpiment, sulphur, realgar,…
Topic
Kalyana salt
कल्याण लवण
About twenty drugs, among them mahanimba, kutaja, arka, snuhi, apamarga, chitraka, palasha, shigru, both nightshades, vasa, patala, bilva, both karanjas, chavya, bhallataka and vaijayanti,…