Part 6 - Diet in Udavarta and Anaha

Diet and actions salutary in Udavarta and Anaha.

Fomentation of the belly after rubbing it with oil, purgation, application of douche, phalavarti saturated with oil and entered into the rectum; rubbing of oil all over the body, everything tending to purge stool, urine, and wind, soup of meat of goat, ram, deer, game-fowl, and fish, castor oil, varuni wine (see page 373, vol. III), green radish, leaves of aragbdha, trivrit, tila (sesamum), leaves of snuhi, ginger, matulunga, java-kshara„ haritaki, lavanga, hingu, grapes, cow’s urine, and salts.

Note on phalabarti.

Equal quantities of madana fruit, pippali, kustha, vacha, white mustard, molasses and java-kshara, rubbed together and entered into the rectum, pacifies udavarta. This paste is called phalabarti.

Diet and actions insalutaru in udavarta and anaha:—

vomiting, suppression of calls of nature, pulses and beans, kodrava rice, nalita leaves, tuber of water-lily, jambu fruits, karkati fruit, sesamum paste, all sorts of potatoes, karira (bamboo sprout), pista (all sorts of food pestled and then roasted, baked, or boiled), food which causes flatulence, food incongenial by combination, astringents, and heavy food.