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(švitriņi) also by the same (way) as said before, but it is to be known that the diet of boiled water of phaseolus munga with ghee (clarified
butter) should be given according to the process (way) as said before. 53. Even the disease of Jaundice goes away by the use of the medicinal
ash for three days and the taking of Sathi rice by the way as said
before. 54. Dropsy (Mahodari) also thus (goes away) as said before. The man
(patient) should take (eat) godhūmathulikā (grains of wheat), cooked with
sugar. 55. Medicinal ash measuring one grain of rice (if) taken for four days
destroys (cures) quickly the disease called sitāngajhola (comatose). 56. But an intelligent patient should take the diet of phaseolus radiatus
and rice (which is) called hotch-potch (Kșipracaţikā = Khicadi). for the
disease quickly. 57. That (medicinal ash) drunk with the combination of piper betel, as
said before, together with the taking of godhamalapata (a kind of wheat preparation) destroys (cures) apasmāra (epilepsy)-a kind of
Vāyuroga. 58. That medicinal ash measuring trati, taken for four days with the diet
of Indian bread; made of gram, without clarified butter, destroys (cures)
the dyspnoea (breathing trouble or asthma). 59. The same medicine used according to the śāstra (medical science)
destroys (cures) also instantly or (immediately) the disease-psoriasis
(Kitikānagarābhikhyamapi) of different (přthagvidham) types. 60. Here what is the use by saying too much, (there is no case) without .. death, no doubt (about it.) This great nourishing (medicine) destroys
all diseases. 61. The medical recipe given by Jagadamba (the mother of the universe)
with her own desire as mercy to those saluting her and revealed by her and known from the tradition of the Gurus has become greatly unde
caying like the golden înan. 62. One makes this uncomparable thing pure and accomplished like a shape
of pill (guțikā) by meditating on Hrímkāram, etc., and taking pure mercury, measuring pala, 1 every day only its one māşa by saturating it with the juice of date tree and rubbing it with gold-leaf measuring
one pala in a mortar. 1. Palamitati
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