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Sugar, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Sugarcane juice mixed with sugar, drunk regularly, is said to remove pox with blisters.

The commentary says that if prameha is not treated quickly it later takes the form of madhumeha; the patient is then called madhumehi and has prameha boils, as the verse also says of the…

Sugarcane juice and foods made with it are listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Cited as an example of poison used as medicine in poison-induced udara: pieces of sugarcane are made to be bitten by a black snake and then eaten.

Ghee mixed with sugar is put into a milking pail and cow's milk is milked into it fresh and warm (dharoshna); a dry person who drinks it is said to lose his dryness at once and become…

A powder of sugar, liquorice and long pepper, eaten, is said to calm even violent hiccup.

Ghee mixed with sugar and drunk with milk is said to bring about oleation quickly.

A clear amalaki decoction with ghee, sugarcane juice, milk and drugs of the cooling group is said to remove strong pitta vomiting.

A decoction of cinnamon with sugar is given to a patient tormented by thirst.

In disorders arising from pitta, the ghee for oleation is drunk mixed with sugar.

A decoction of guduchi that has not been damaged by insects, with sugar added, is said to surely calm vomiting from all three doshas.

Abhaya (haritaki) used with sugar is said to remove the complications (upadrava) that come with disease.

As the alternative in verse 43, licorice powder mixed with an equal part of sugar is taken every morning with cold water, with the same result of removing wrinkles and grey hair and giving…

Liquorice ground in sugarcane juice is said to destroy pitta cough quickly.

As the alternative in verse 36, milk mixed with licorice powder and plenty of sugar is drunk, with the same claim: even a man without virility could go to a woman seven times every day.

Sugar, long pepper and turpeth, as paste or powder taken with oil, are said to purge and remove vata lodged in the colon.

Powdered sugar and the three pungents mixed in warm water are given as a purgative even to patients otherwise unfit for purgation when they suffer strongly aggravated pitta, heavy worm…

Trikatu taken with sugar is said to be beneficial in pandu and kamala.

After purification, the pandu patient constantly licks triphala mixed with ghee and sugar; the commentary gives a powder of haritaki, bibhitaka, amalaki, dry ginger, black pepper and long…

A nasal dose made with all the fragrant drugs and sugar is called very beneficial in vomiting.

For excessive emesis the patient is bathed with cold water and then purged with sugarcane juice and drugs of cooling quality.

The paste of rock bark (upalavalkala) taken with triphala, sugar, ghee, long pepper and vidanga is said to destroy the whole host of diseases.