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A footnote adds that a paste of khas, licorice, hribera, sariva, lotus, lodhra, priyangu, manjishtha and red ochre is also beneficial for the Garuda-seized child.

हिन्दी: उशीर, खस · मराठी: बाला

हिन्दी: वीरणमूल, खस, गाडरखस · मराठी: काळा वाळा, पीत वाळा

A loose tooth affected by the disease called shushira-dantaka is extracted and its root burnt with fire; the commentary speaks of burning the tooth pain with fire.

Painful swelling of the gums from kapha and blood with a discharge of kapha; rubbed with kushtha, antimony, lodhra and musta.

A disease of all three doshas in which the teeth fall from the gums, the palate splits and pain is intense; treated with drugs against all three doshas.

When teeth fall from their gums, the palate splits and pain is intense, the disease is mahashushira, arising from all three doshas; it is treated with drugs that overcome all three doshas.

A painful swelling of the gums from kapha and blood with discharge of kapha is shushira; it is rubbed with kushtha, antimony (surma), lodhra and musta.

The commentary counts seven hundred veins (sirā).

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Milk that is boiled and then cooled is said to calm pitta disorders; verse 26 adds that boiled and cooled milk binds the stool.

Milk that is boiled and drunk warm is said to remove kapha and vata disorders; milk taken in states other than those described is said to cause many diseases.

After leeching, the place is washed again and again with cold water so the disease is drained, and then milk or ghee is sprinkled over it for a long time.

Cool food and drink for pitta disorders: milk, ghee, sugarcane juice, pea soup, green gram with jaggery preparations, buffalo curd, matsyakshi greens and meghanada with ghee.

Lukewarm decoction enemas of trees, rich in sugar, milk and ghee, given to the pitta-type udara patient.

Lukewarm milk with suvarchika (yavakshara in the commentary), asafoetida and dry ginger, said to relieve mahodara.

Milk cooked with rock salt, asafoetida, black pepper, ativisha, ajamoda and dry ginger is drunk for diarrhoea.

Milk cooked with trivrit, the three myrobalans and the three pungents is drunk and is said to settle diarrhoea quickly.

For six months afterwards the jalodara patient eats only with lukewarm milk; milk is to be used in all treatments of mahodara.

In a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long pepper is drunk.

In vata cough a milk preparation such as kheer, or milk alone, may be drunk.

Milk properly prepared with ajamoda and rock salt is named as wholesome food in long-standing diarrhoea and chronic fever.