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For the disorders of an unsuitable purifying medicine, the patient is made to vomit with warm water mixed with ugra (vacha).

A child seized by the Pishacha graha is fumigated constantly with vacha, kushtha and sal resin.

हिन्दी: चव्य, कार्पासी, चविका, वच · मराठी: चवक, गजपिंपळी, गजपिंपळीचे मूळ, कापूस, गुंजा

हिन्दी: वच · मराठी: वेखंड, कळलावी, कोळिंजन

Fresh cow butter or ghee mixed with gold bhasma (हेमचूर्ण in the verse) and vacha powder is given to the child according to its digestive strength, starting with a very small amount and…

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…

A pouch of haritaki, white mustard, vacha and jatamamsi is made and worn by a child seized by the Rakshasa graha.

Sesame oil cooked with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, vacha and similar drugs is applied to a child seized by the Putana graha.

Oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu, sarala and shatahva, together with kanji, sour curd and buttermilk, is massaged on a child seized by the Rakshasa…

हिन्दी: भुंजितखड, सोंठ, लहसुन, गेंठी, वच्छनाभ विष, पीपला, अतीस · मराठी: श्वेत लसुण, सुंठ, भुईतरवड, बचनाग, विष, पिंपळी, अतिविष

The skin is said to have seven layers (tvak).

Cold water with madanaphala, long pepper, vacha and sandalwood, in which jaggery has been soaked, is used to make a patient with severe pitta vomit; afterwards cold yavagu with ghee and…

A complication of emesis or purgation in which an unsuitable medicine moves partly up and partly down without removing the doshas; the text lists its effects and treats it with emesis using…

A neem decoction with a paste of rock salt, vacha and madanaphala is given for emesis in kapha fever.

Milk in which triphala and madanaphala, mixed with a paste of rock salt, vacha and long pepper, have been cooked is given lukewarm in the morning to bring on emesis after oleation and…

A decoction of liquorice, long pepper, vacha and madanaphala is used to give mild emesis even to patients otherwise unfit for emesis, when they suffer severe indigestion, strong poisoning,…

A decoction of vacha, musta, ativisha and liquorice reduced to one eighth is strained and drunk with ambashthika; it is said to check even a torrential diarrhoea.

The roots, bark and leaves of about fifty plants (arka, ankola, chitraka, white oleander, musta, the milky and astringent trees and many others) are burnt to ash; the ash is mixed with six…

The child wears a pouch of haritaki, white mustard, vacha and jatamamsi, and the possessed child is worshipped beneath a tree with flower garlands, various foods, sesame and rice.

The patient, fit for bloodletting, is fed cool food and seated; an unbroken site is roughened with powdered earth and cow dung or a dry paste and washed with cold water. The leeches are…

A patient with a disease curable by bloodletting is examined, given cool food in the cool season and seated; if the site has no wound it is rubbed rough with powdered earth and cow dung or…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

The child is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha, or with warm kanji; massaged with oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu,…