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Varuṇa (varnā) flowers are listed among flowers said to increase vata and kapha, calm pitta and blood, and expel worms from the belly.

The bark of varuna and neem is put on the child, and is described as warding off the Revati graha.

The use of varuna, licorice and shigru is said to be unfailing and always to calm severe internal vidradhi; the form of the preparation is not stated.

हिन्दी: वरना वृक्ष · मराठी: वायवरणा

A child seized by the Putana graha is sprinkled with water boiled with the ghost-conquering drugs neem, varuna, arka, nili and asphota.

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

हिन्दी: नील अपराजिता, इन्द्रायण, नीली कोयलता, कृष्णकान्ता · मराठी: दुधी, चारोळी, श्वेत गोकर्णी, काळी किन्ही, थोर इन्द्रावण, काळी गोकर्णी, वारुणी, आक्षोठ, गवाक्षी, शेन्दणी, लघु कांवडळ

हिन्दी: कुटज वृक्ष, वरुण वृक्ष, तित्तरसा, कुड़े का पेड़, चिरतित्त, कृष्णखदिर · मराठी: पडवळ, किराईत, काळा खदिर

हिन्दी: वरना वृक्ष · मराठी: तुरी, वायवरणा, उंट, कुंपण, वांद

Though his body seems healthy, the Putana-seized child does not sleep well by day or night; he is sprinkled with water boiled with the ghost-conquering drugs neem, varuna, arka, nili and…

Oil, ghee, milk and food cooked with the paste and decoction of triphala, trikatu, shigru, chitraka root, vidanga, kushtha, varuna, large and small cardamom and bida, black and rock salts,…

At both twilights the child is fumigated with vulture and owl dung mixed with ghee, and is made to wear the bark of varuna and neem, which is said to ward off the Revati graha.

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

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…

Fruits of gṛdhrā (kākādanī), pāṭala (āśudhāna), pāṭalī (pāḍal), netra, karkoṭī (kakoḍā), musalī, varuṇa, piṇḍītaka (madana) and ārevata (amaltās) are described as dry, sweet and cold,…

The preparation of varuna, licorice and shigru is said to be unfailing and always to calm severe internal vidradhi; the roots of shukamukha and dhava (as the commentary reads it), ground in…

Red and white castor, both nightshades, varuna, aragvadha, agnimantha, chitraka root, shigru, arka and white arka bark, patala, tarkari, devadaru, apamarga, shyonaka (tentu), murva,…

The vata-destroying group is red and white castor, both nightshades, varuna, aragvadha, agnimantha, chitraka root, shigru, arka and white arka bark, patala, tarkari, devadaru, apamarga,…