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A minor disease from all three doshas: a round, fixed, large, heavy swelling like the vidari tuber in the groin and armpit, treated according to the doshas.

Vidārī tuber is listed among tubers described as heavy to digest, cold, kapha-increasing, sweet, suitable in raktapitta, helping to pass stool and urine, and semen-increasing.

From the three doshas, a round, fixed, large and heavy swelling like the vidari tuber arises in the groin and armpit region, showing the features of all three doshas; it is called vidarika…

Vidarika is hard and round like the vidari tuber and painful; vidradhi, painful and arising from all the doshas, is of five kinds but is described here as two, savarnaka and shighravidahi;…

हिन्दी: विदारीकन्द · मराठी: भुयकोहोळा

हिन्दी: विदारीकन्द, शालवन, एक प्रकार का कंठरोग · मराठी: भुयकोहोळा, गलरोग, कर्णपालीरोग, सुवर्चला, वाराही, क्षीरकंकोळी, कंकोली, अर्जुन, भद्रवि

हिन्दी: कुदा, विदारी कन्द · मराठी: बादांगुळ

The commentary explains vidaraka as a particular tree standing in the middle of water.

हिन्दी: वज्रखार · मराठी: नदीमध्ये पाण्यासाठी खणलेला खळगा, वज्रक्षार

Ten kinds of boils said to occur in prameha patients, each named after its form; they arise from the three doshas and show their signs.

Prameha patients get ten kinds of boils: sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata.

Sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata; they are treated with leeches and strong purgation, ripening applications, incision,…