A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.175

v1.c23.175

The subjects are: the best purgative among roots: aruṇatrivṛt, 413 among barks: tilvaka, among fruits: harītakī, among oils: eraṇḍataila, among expressed juices: that of kāravellikā, among milky juices (payas): that of sudhā (44.3–4); preparations with trivṛt;414 preparations useful in vāta, pitta and kapha disorders (44.5–6); various preparations (44.7–9); pills (guṭikā) (44.10–11); 415 modakas (44.12–13); 416 yūṣas (44.14); 417 a puṭapāka preparation (44.15); lehas (44.16–22); 418 a modaka (44.23); a leha or guṭikā (44.24–26ab); a cūrṇa (44.26cd–27); 419 an āsava (44.28–30); a surā (44.31–34); 420 a medicated sauvīraka (44.35–40ab); 421 a medicated tuṣodaka (44.40cd–45); 422 puṭapāka preparations (44.46–47ab); medicated oils and ghees (44.47cd–49ab); 423 a powder soaked in cow’s urine (44.49cd–51); 424 a modaka (44.52–54ab); the recipe of trivṛttaṣṭaka (44.54cd–59); 425 a preparation with tilvaka (44.60–62a); 426 preparations with harītakī (44.62–69); preparations with triphalā (44.70–72); preparations with caturaṅgula (44.73b–76ab); 427 preparations with eraṇḍataila (44.75cd–77); preparations with the milky juice of sudhā (44.78b–86ab); 428 a good purgative for general use (44.87–89); the six forms of pharmaceutical preparation, which are successively weaker in the following order: milky juice (kṣīra), expressed juice (rasa), paste (kalka), decoction (śṛtakaṣāya), cold infusion (śītakaṣāya), and powder (cūrṇa) (44.90–91).