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Tamarind leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

Having given formulas for all vata and kapha poisons, the text now gives very cooling ones for pitta poisons: sariva, jatamamsi, raisins, clove, cinnamon, shyama, somalata, shallaki,…

The prameha patient keeps to dry (ruksha) food and gives up alcohol, asava and arishta, milk, ghee, tamarind and other sour things, plenty of sweet food, curd, sugarcane and meat.

Gruels, khala-yusha, milk, foods and drinks prepared with the same drugs as the vata-stone ghee are to be given to patients with vata-type stone.

For vata-type stone, gruels (yavagu, vilepi) and khala-yusha made with water boiled with the same drugs, and milk, snacks, meals and drinks prepared with them, are to be given. A footnote…

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…

Flowers of drumstick, golden shower, lisoḍā, silk-cotton, śamī (chhauṅkarā), lotus, tamarind, kanyā (glossed large cardamom or vārāhīkanda), agastya, sunn hemp, varuṇa and neem are said to…

Leaf vegetables of guhyākṣī, safflower, the śāka tree, lavaṇī, rāī, ajamoda, white mustard, tamarind and mango leaves, śyāmatamāla, kulāhala, gaṇḍīra, kandūrī, drumstick, cumin, fennel,…

Mango, āmrātaka (ambāḍā), citron, lakuca (baḍhar), old tamarind, pomegranate, the small, large and bush jujubes, cavya, phalsa, emblic, chironji, karavandī, cane, jīva, āmraka, sour…

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…

A prameha patient should give up alcohol, asava and arishta, milk, ghee, tamarind and other sour things, plenty of sweet food, curd, sugarcane and meat, and keep to dry (ruksha) food.