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The juice of the large udumbara is given to a thirsty patient.

Cluster fig fruit, as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

हिन्दी: गूलर, [न] ताम्र · मराठी: उंबर, [न] तांबे

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…

Fruits of the milky trees (kṣīrī vṛkṣa)—listed in the commentary as banyan, cluster fig, pīpal's pākhar, phāras and pīpal—are among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to…

A thirsty patient is given a cinnamon decoction with sugar, the juice of latex trees or of jati, or the juice of the large udumbara.

Aruna kushtha arises from vata, with painful reddish blisters; kapala, rishyajihva, audumbara and kakanaka arise from pitta; dadru and pundarika arise from kapha and are very itchy, white,…

Aruna from vata; kapala, rishyajihva, audumbara and kakanaka from pitta; dadru and pundarika from kapha.