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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…

Patha, asafoetida, triphala, the three pungents, parpataka, ajamoda, chitraka, rock salt, vida salt, vidanga and black salt are powdered, mixed with cow ghee and kept in a horn; used for…

A powder of the three pungents, vidanga, asafoetida, vida salt, rock salt, cardamom, chitraka, black salt, devadaru, kutki and cumin, taken mixed with ghee, citron juice or buttermilk or…

A powder of the three pungents with vidanga, asafoetida, vida salt, rock salt, cardamom, chitraka, black salt, devadaru, kutki and cumin, taken in ghee, citron juice or buttermilk or with…

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…

For the enema, oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji are mixed in due measure with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and with cow's urine and churned; a fine paste…

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

Talisa, large cardamom, vidanga, kushtha, vida salt, rock salt, bharangi, asafoetida, indravaruni, apamarga, patha, patola, vacha and the flowers of arka, karanja, vajra, surasa, bhallataka…

Treatment begins with ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of vida salt, vacha and madhushigru, given to drink, followed by purgation with tilvaka ghee and a decoction enema with cow…

Equal parts of manjishtha, licorice, trivrit, devadaru, grapes, the two turmerics, bharangi, the three pungents, vidanga, asafoetida and salt are powdered, mixed with ghee and kept in a…

Seeing the purified mercury shining with a lustre like the sun, the physician bows to the siddhas and worships it with care, then puts into it a quarter part of suitable, very red bija…

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,…

Bija is a metal that, put into another metal while it is being cooked, gives it its own colour, and pure gold and silver are also called bija; garbhadruti is making what mercury has…

Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice rubbed and kept ten days in a copper vessel, then mixed with jasmine flowers, vidanga, dry ginger, rock salt and long pepper and triturated with oil;…

Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice are rubbed in a copper vessel and left in it for ten days; jasmine flowers, vidanga, dry ginger, rock salt and long pepper are then added and the mass…

After worshipping the Jina, the presiding deities, the lords of the yakshas, Ambika and the yakshi Kushmandini, reciting the five-salutation mantra 24 times and taking the preliminary…

Vijalini seed, vacha, the three pungents, shigru, nimba seed, vidanga, rock salt and mustard are mixed into malkangani oil, or the oil is cooked with them, and used as nasal medication; it…

An oil cooked with karavira, vidanga, danti root, chitraka root, orpiment, snuhi latex, arka latex and rock salt is applied on piles, which the text says it pacifies.

Rock salt, the three pungents, asafoetida and vidanga are powdered and mixed with ghee and sesame oil, and smoked; this oily smoke is said to remove vata cough quickly.

Pastes for piles: arka latex with orpiment and turmeric powder; snuhi latex with chitraka, gunja, rock salt and turmeric; pippali, rock salt, chitraka and gunja (with kushtha in the verse)…

Vijalini seed, vacha, the three pungents, shigru, nimba seed, vidanga, rock salt and mustard, mixed into malkangani oil or cooked with it, are used as nasal medication to remove worms of…

Yellow mica, patalika and patuvajraka are ground with rock salt, borax and the three pungents in punarnava juice, cooked in kanji, melted in a crucible, ground with gold powder and mixed…

Yellow mica (hemabhraka), patalika and patuvajraka are mixed with rock salt, borax, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper and ground well with the juice of punarnava (vishakhapara); this…