Compound preparations

An alkali made from the ash of many plants cooked with six parts of cow urine, with spice and mineral powders added during cooking, used as nasya, collyrium and paste against all poisons.

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

Ghee and oil cooked with a paste, ground in the eight urines, and a decoction of about forty plant, mineral and animal substances in equal parts are used in graha disease for drinking,…

Gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya (the commentary: bhuri charila, a kind of fragrant substance), their flowers; guduchi, hata (shaivala), mahanila, vanamallika, nili…

Oil or ghee, or both, cooked with the paste and decoction of some twenty-five drugs, many of them sharp or toxic, used in the bhagandara wound; said to relieve pain and quickly cleanse and…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…

After venesection, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga,…

Decoctions of many cool, sweet drugs, drunk with ghee and sugar, together with milk, foods and drinks prepared with the same drugs, are said always to destroy the pitta-type stone.

An enema fluid of oil, ghee, milk, buttermilk, curd and kanji with a decoction of turpeth, madanaphala and castor seed and cow's urine, churned with a fine paste of seventeen drugs (one…

Ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of some two dozen drugs, given after purification by emesis and purgation as soon as a stone appears; it is said to break the great vata-type stone.

Purified, strained water scented with lotus leaf, clove, khas, sandalwood, camphor, small cardamom, kūṭh, nāgapuṣpa, bakula, jasmine, mallikā and pāṭalī flowers, nutmeg, lavalī, blue lotus,…

For patients who are obese through kushtha, prameha, udara or sinuses, with swelling, kapha disorders or excess fat, and who wish or need to become lean: a saktu of wheat, renuka seed and…

A cooling powder of twenty-three drugs soaked in milks and ghee and taken with an equal weight of sugar, said to pacify mandali (pitta-provoking) snake poison quickly.

A ghee cooked with a decoction of sixteen drugs, snuhi latex and a paste of haritaki, sea salt or devadaru and chavya is said to cure consumption, abdominal enlargement, all urinary…

The flowers of shyama (the commentary: phul priyangu, with a question mark), saireyaka (katsaraiya), sahachara (yellow katsaraiya) and black madanaphala; plenty of leaves of mahanila and…

Talmakhana, sugarcane, musli, tilaja, apamarga, nirgundi, rambha, arka, lotus, castor, chitraka, sesame and other famous drugs are burnt to ash. The ash is stirred into four times its water…

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…

A paste of the three myrobalans, the three pungents, turmeric, chakramarda, aparajita, neem, karanja, bhallataka and the five salts ground with sour gruel and buttermilk, rubbed on firmly…

A fragrant ghee cooked with a paste of fifteen herbs, cow milk and jaggery; the text says taking it daily makes a man virile, increases strength and lifespan and keeps him free of disease,…

Six aromatic and pungent drugs in rising parts from one to six, powdered with an equal weight of sugar, said to destroy kapha and many diseases including raktapitta, pandu, consumption,…

A medicated ghee matured with sugar candy, bamboo manna and vidanga decoction in a grain heap and licked daily with cow's milk is described as greatly improving intellect, aphrodisiac and…

Naracha ghee cooked again with a decoction of four purgative drugs and a paste of seven others; it acts quickly as a purgative and is called the best purgative for mahodara, ashthila,…

Equal parts of shigru, karanja, chitraka, the three pungents, karavira, ashvagandha and wild basil, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied…

An antidote powder of herbs, salts and six kinds of flowers mixed with goat's milk, ghee and water (the commentary: urine), used as the preceding antidotes to destroy poison.

A paste of seventeen drugs headed by bael, including realgar and both kinds of arka, applied for swellings from strong kapha and vata and for vata and kapha diseases.

A fine powder of long pepper, liquorice, saffron, kuṣṭha, dhyāmaka, tagara, lodhra, jaṭāmāṃsī, sandal, natron (sajjīkhār), guḍūcī and small cardamom is mixed with sugar and cow's ghee;…

Equal parts of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied for kitibha, dadru, kachchhu…

A paste of thirteen burnt drugs headed by bhallataka in sesame oil, the second of the colour-restoring pastes.

Pills of gold, copper and silver ash, or of pearl and coral ash, with equal powders of amalaki, bibhitaki, haritaki, samudraphena, turmeric, conch, tuttha, guduchi, liquorice, long pepper,…

An antidote powder of seventeen drugs mixed with panchagavya and kept in a cow's horn, said to overcome all poisons.

An oil is prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky (kshiri) trees, mahanila, and the roots of blue lotus and red kumuda (a footnote: the word आंघ्रिक्वाथ may…

Oil cooked with dry ginger, shirisha seed, drumstick, devadaru, tree turmeric, karanja, apamarga, black salt, asafoetida, kanjira and cumin is given as nasya for vata lodged in the head.

A variant of the same saktu, mixed with trijataka, dry ginger and the bhallataka group, impregnated with a decoction of neem, asana and aragvadha, mixed with sugar, amalaki, sour fruits,…

Ghee cooked with kuṣṭha, sandal, reṇukā, turmeric, devadāru, both bṛhatīs, mañjiṣṭhā, priyaṅgu, viḍaṅga, nīlī, sārivā, tagara and pūtikarañja is said to overcome all fierce poisons, which…

Ash of barley, patala, bilva, kantakari, sesame, palasha and nut grass is steeped in water and filtered; the alkaline water, with cinnamon, vidanga, tarumushika fruit and cardamom, is drunk…

Oil, ghee, milk and food cooked with a group of pungent drugs and salts, an alkaline decoction, drinks and the ground paste of the same drugs are said always to destroy the kapha-type stone.

Saffron, sandalwood, red sandalwood, lodhra, kushtha, lac, realgar, orpiment, turmeric and tree turmeric, lotus stamens, manjishtha, golden ochre and the kakoli group are ground well and…

Haritaki fried in oil and kamsa powder are taken in equal parts, iron powder (roasted, says the verse) equal to both, and as much nilanjana (glossed as blue vitriol), all mixed together. A…

A fumigation wick made from a paste of mahua, khirni, neem, ingudi, palasha and castor kernels with kushtha, jatamamsi, devadaru, guggulu, resin, fresh ginger, sariva and others; it is lit…

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of seven drugs and cow-dung juice, licked for liver and spleen enlargement, distension, mahodara, cough, gulma, upward-moving vata and udavarta.

Eight drugs headed by danti, with sharp iron powder, jaggery and khadira decoction, fermented in a prepared ghee pot buried in grain; taken according to digestive strength, it is said to…

Fumigation of the mouth with a wick of danti, apamarga, ingudi, devadaru and sarala, or with guggulu, dhyamaka, jatamamsi, agaru, pepper and similar drugs; the next verse says this…

The verse says matsyakshi, girikarnika, shikhishikha, jangharuha and kshirini bring about the nirmukha union of mica and mercury; the commentary says that mica and mercury mixed with the…

A paste of nut grass, chironji, liquorice, mango bark, shalaparni, priyangu, durva, lotus, white lotus, shatavari, chirata, red sandalwood, kaseru, kushtha and tree turmeric is applied in…

A powder of nine drugs with an equal amount of iron, taken with sugar and ghee, said to relieve pandu, prameha, piles, severe kushtha, sinuses and worm disease.

Cinnamon, cardamom, long pepper, vamshalochana and white sugar, each double the one before, powdered and mixed, are eaten for raktapitta, consumption, thirst, breathlessness, hiccup, fever,…

A powder of twelve drugs headed by mango seed kernel, drunk with whey, is said to settle diarrhoea in the pakva stage.