Part 4 - Uses of gairika

Gairikara, pansu salt, shunthi, bacha, katphala, and kanji—all rubbed together and made into an ointment—cure swelling of the parts around the ears in typhoid and other fevers caused by an excess of the three doshas. In fevers due to an excess of pitta, gairika may be used with honey, either alone or with mercury and sulphur. It cures rakta pitta, if taken with decoction of dhanya, ushira, and sandal or with ela and sugar. Saindhava, daru haridra, haritaki, gairika, and rasanjana—all rubbed together and made into a paste—cure all sorts of eye-diseases, if applied to the eye-lids and the surrounding region. Red ‘sandal, laksha, buds of malati flower, made into a paste and applied all round the eyes, cure vrana-shukra of a recent growth. Gairika, in doses of one fourth of a tola, taken internally four times a day, with kanji, cures shita pitta. Gairika with turmeric rubbed together and made into a paste cures shita pitta and udarda, by external application. Gairika, in doses of one fourth of a tola, may be taken with water for the cure of diseases due to an excess of pitta. It cures visarpa due to an excess of pitta, by being rubbed with ghee and applied externally to the parts affected. It cures burns, by external application with cocoanut oil or ghee. Gairika, kernel of the stone of a mangoe fruit, bidanga, haridra, rasanjana, and katphala,—all rubbed with water and applied externally cures itches in the vagina.