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The commentary describes tilvaka as a particular purgative tree shaped like the lodhra tree, with large leaves and a reddish colour; footnote 1 gives the same description from the Vaidyaka…

Tilvaka, rendered lodh in the commentary, is counted among the latex (milk) poisons.

A medicated ghee made from a paste of tilvaka ground with sour substances, with danti root, kshirakanchuki and trivrit, cooked with curd, triphala decoction and ghee; it is described as a…

A paste of tilvaka ground with sour substances, with danti root, kshirakanchuki and trivrit, is cooked with curd, triphala decoction and ghee into a medicated ghee said to be a suitable…

हिन्दी: लोध · मराठी: हिंगणबेट, लोध्र

The verse describes sesame as hot, pervaded by astringent, bitter and sweet tastes, binding and appetising, light in digestion, and, applied to wounds, cleansing and healing.

हिन्दी: पेट में जल रहने का स्थान, चोहारकोडा, काला नोन, तिलक पुष्प वृक्ष, मरुआ वृक्ष, कालतिल रोग · मराठी: कृष्णलोह, गूळ, क्षुद्ररोग, काळे तीळ, काचलवण, पिपासास्थान, संचळ, तिलकपुष्प, टिळा,…

हिन्दी: सैंविनी · मराठी: तिलक, भूर्जपत्र, अशोक

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru is given to the mahodara patient to drink, who is then purged with tilvaka ghee and given a decoction enema with…

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,…

Treatment begins with ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru, given to drink, followed by purgation with tilvaka ghee and a decoction enema with cow…