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A poultice cooked with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on, and…

A poultice prepared with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on,…

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Sweating is of four kinds: heat (tapa), steam (ushma), bandage or poultice (bandhana, upanaha) and liquid (drava). Tapa sweating warms the lying patient with heated cloth, palms and the…

A poultice of oil, milk, ghee, rock salt and vata-reducing drugs cooked to the thickness of rice pudding, bound over the bhagandara wound with leaves and cloth.

A drug mass cooked with vata-reducing drugs, oil, buttermilk, curd, milk and sour substances is spread thickly on the part, and a blanket, cloth or vata-reducing leaves such as castor and…

Oil, milk, ghee, rock salt and vata-reducing drugs are cooked together until thick like rice pudding (payasa); this poultice is bound over the bhagandara wound with leaves and cloth, as is…

Whatever part of the body a vata disease occupies, that part is to be treated with vata-reducing measures: oil applications, unction (ubtan), sudation and poultices (upanaha) prepared with…