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A footnote quoting Rasendrasarasangraha lists the sour group as amlavetasa, jambira lemon, citron, chickpea alkali, orange, tintidika, tamarind fruit, lemon, changeri, sour pomegranate and…

Orange or lemon, cane shoots, chickpea alkali, citron, jambira lemon, tamarind and the rest of the sour group, together with the three pungents and the five salts (rock, black, sea, vida…

The salt group drunk with sour gruel is said to calm severe mutrakricchra.

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

Kapha is calmed by holding gargles of mustard and the like, of salty, pungent, astringent and bitter drugs and of hot water; by cleaning the teeth with sticks of neem, karanja, babul and…

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

Seeing the purified mercury shining with a lustre like the sun, the physician bows to the siddhas and worships it with care, then puts into it a quarter part of suitable, very red bija…

A footnote defines gandusha as holding a decoction of medicines in the mouth until kapha and the other doshas come out.

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Arochaka is an unmatched aversion to food caused by aggravated doshas, emotions such as grief, fear and anger, and impaired digestive fire.

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

A footnote defines vida as the substances combined to digest (jirna) any metal swallowed by mercury: alkalis, sour substances, sulphur, cow urine, salts and the like, and quotes a verse to…

Kshara karma is called the foremost of sharp and accessory instruments. The text gives its two kinds, how a weakened kshara is restored, the blackening that shows proper burning, washing…

In hiccup with much upward-moving vata, enema is especially used, purgation with rock salt and sour substances is arranged, and the warm group of foods is given.

The anorexic patient's mouth is washed with a decoction of the urine group, turmeric, the three fruits and sour, alkaline, bitter, pungent, hot and astringent drugs; tooth-sticks of sour…

A decoction of the urine group, turmeric, the three fruits and sour, alkaline, bitter, pungent, hot and astringent drugs is used to wash the anorexic patient's mouth, with tooth-sticks of…

Sour fruits are ground and applied on the tongue, and the patient drinks water in which heated iron, sand, silver or gold has been quenched, water cooked with the sweet or cooling groups,…

The throat, ears and forehead are first sweated; the gargle liquid is then held in the mouth, filling it only halfway, and kept still until the medicine is enveloped in kapha; when the eyes…

The patient drinks ghee mixed with the salt group and barley alkali; trikatu, asafoetida, ajamoda and rock salt are also given with sour fruit juices or with milk.

A paste of cucumber (trapusa) seeds, one aksha (one tola per the commentary), drunk with good sour gruel, and the salt group taken with gruel are said to calm even severe mutrakricchra.

Fresh liquid is taken and the gargle repeated with care until the doshas come out, heaviness of the head goes and hoarseness and other mouth diseases calm; then no more is held, since…

A variant of the same saktu, mixed with trijataka, dry ginger and the bhallataka group, impregnated with a decoction of neem, asana and aragvadha, mixed with sugar, amalaki, sour fruits,…

A suppository of purifying drugs, mustard, rock salt, alkalis and the three pungents ground with cow urine and sour substances, placed in the anus in mahodara.