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Licorice, sandalwood, vetiver, hribera, nut grass, lotus and neem leaf and root, rubbed in rice water and drunk, are said to relieve vishuchika together with thirst.

As the alternative in verse 43, licorice powder mixed with an equal part of sugar is taken every morning with cold water, with the same result of removing wrinkles and grey hair and giving…

Liquorice ground in sugarcane juice is said to destroy pitta cough quickly.

For burning of the eyes, a paste of liquorice mixed with buffalo milk, strained, cooled and combined with camphor is to be used, or the same paste with ghee or with paundra sugarcane juice.

A decoction of liquorice, long pepper, vacha and madanaphala is used to give mild emesis even to patients otherwise unfit for emesis, when they suffer severe indigestion, strong poisoning,…

As the alternative in verse 36, milk mixed with licorice powder and plenty of sugar is drunk, with the same claim: even a man without virility could go to a woman seven times every day.

For vata colic after dry, cold purifiers, the patient is massaged with oil and sweated, then given an anuvasana enema of oil cooked with a decoction and paste of liquorice (yashti).

In the seventh month of pregnancy a dose of ghee cooked with the decoction of licorice, lotus, hribera, neem, banana, kadamba bark and jambu, and with curd and milk, is drunk daily to calm…