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Vidaṅga is said to become richer in special qualities when old, unlike most medicines, which are more potent when fresh.

A very fine powder of vidanga is taken every morning with cold water as the after-drink. The commentary says that this, or the licorice alternative of the same verse, destroys wrinkles,…

Vidanga, triphala, nut grass, trikatu, chitraka, amalaki and ajamoda, powdered, soaked in ghee and jaggery and cooked thick with the decoction of the shala-sara group of trees, are licked;…

हिन्दी: श्वेत कुमुद, विडंग, सफेद कमोदनी · मराठी: गाढव, सुवास, श्वेत कमल

हिन्दी: वायविडंग · मराठी: बाविडंग

A very fine vidanga powder, or licorice powder with an equal part of sugar, taken every morning with cold water, is said (the commentary) to remove wrinkles, grey hair and the like and to…

Vidanga powder impregnated many times with horse-dung juice and mixed with sesame oil and sugar is said to destroy worms when used.

Vidanga powder is steeped many times in the juice of horse dung, then mixed with sesame oil and sugar; its use is said to destroy the colonies of worms.

Kernels of good vidanga are made into a paste and purified like flour paste; when cool, free of astringency and dry, they are powdered and mixed with equal amounts of sugar and ghee. The…

Vidanga kernels, purified, cooled, dried and powdered, are mixed with equal sugar and ghee, sealed in a new fragrant pot and kept in a heap of grain through the rains. Afterwards, with the…

Horse gram soup with sesame oil (the commentary says: or sesame oil), mixed with trikatu, asafoetida and vidanga, is said to be beneficial against worms.

The paste of rock bark (upalavalkala) taken with triphala, sugar, ghee, long pepper and vidanga is said to destroy the whole host of diseases.

A powder of trikatu, nut grass, chavya and vidanga, mixed well with ghee and jaggery and licked in the morning, is said to destroy consumption.

Triphala, iron calx, pyrite (sonamakhi), long pepper, vidanga and bhringaraja, which the verse says are taken in equal parts, are used as a powder; the commentary says this brings out three…

हिन्दी: खिरैंटी · मराठी: नागवेल, मद्य, रानताग, मोदिनी, महासमंगा, बिडंग, जयन्ती

हिन्दी: वायबिडंग · मराठी: वायबिडंग

The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

Pandu is described in four kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three) sharing pallor and told apart by colour: black, yellow, white or all three. It is treated by purification followed by licked…

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…

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.

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

The ash of eight plants is boiled in water and strained; jaggery, the three pungents, triphala, vidanga, clove, lavali and cardamom are added and the liquid is kept for a month in the…

White hair is first smeared with a paste (kalka) of triphala and washed with triphala decoction. Then iron powder, in an amount equal to it, is ground well with the juices of champa,…