The Compendium of Caraka 6.1.2_11

6.1.2_11

In a desert tract strewn with kuśa grass, having unctuous, black, sweet soil, or soil of golden colour, devoid of the defects of poison, wild beasts, wind, water, and fire, in a place free from cultivation, ant-hills, cremation grounds, sanctuaries, saline soil, and human dwellings, visited in accordance with the seasons by pleasant wind, water, and sun—[from plants] grown there, uninjured, free from parasites, neither young nor decrepit, endowed with potency, whose old leaves have fallen off, and new leaves have not yet emerged, in the month of Tapas or Tapasya, being pure, disciplined, having performed the worship of deities, having caused twice-born men to recite blessings, at an auspicious moment […], one should dig up roots of nāgabalā; having washed them thoroughly, one should stir a lump of bark of the size of an āamra or of an akṣa, finely pounded, with milk, and administer it in the morning; or one should drink them powdered with milk, or consume them mixed with honey and ghee; and when it is digested, one should eat śāli or ṣaṣṭika rice with milk and ghee.