Part 4 - Taking of Yasoda

Accompaniments of Yasoda,

Yasoda cures dysentery, if taken with a hima-kashaya (decoction prepared without the application of heat) of kharjura (dates), and tanduliya roots. If taken in this way, it also cures fever due to an excess of pitta. It cures fever accompanied with a sensation of coldness, if taken with jamani and lavanga. In diarrhoea and vomiting it should he used with sugar and jeera. It is beneficial to eyesight, if used as a collyrium with old ghee (clarified butter). It cures spermatorrhoea and gonorrhoea, if taken with the juice of betel leaves. It increases power of digestion, if taken with the juice of agnimantha. It is a destroyer of all the doshas, if taken with the trisugandhi.

Doses of zinc.

Dose of zinc, incinerated with orpiment, is 2 raktis a day. It is six raktis a day, if incinerated without orpiment.

Evil effects of zinc, not properly incinerated.

Zinc, not properly purified and incinerated, gives rise to the following diseases:—gonorrhoea, indigestion, flatulence, vomiting, and giddiness. It is therefore to be purified and incinerated properly.

Remedy.

A man is freed from the evil effects of bad zinc, if he takes for three days bala and haritaki mixed with sugar.