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[[Kalpa Sthana]] Chapter 3.Pharmaceutical preparations of Ikshvaku  

<big>'''[[Kalpa Sthana]] Chapter 3.Pharmaceutical preparations of Ikshvaku '''</big>

=== Abstract ===

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In the chapter on pharmaceutics of ''Ikshvaku'' (Lagenaria siceraria), 45 recipes of ''Ikshvaku'' processed in various media like milk, alcohol, whey, buttermilk, oil cake, clarified butter, meat soup etc. are described. The useful parts like leaves, flower and seeds of ''ikshvaku'' are employed for emesis. A recipe with administration of seeds in an increasing dose from fifty up to maximum hundred seeds per day is described.''Ikshvaku'' is indicated in conditions like ''kasa''(cough), ''shwasa'' (dyspnea/asthma), ''chhardi''(vomiting), ''jwara''(fever), ''visha''(toxin), ''swarabheda''(hoarseness), ''peenasa''(coryza), ''gulma''(lump in abdomen), ''udara''(abdominal swellings including ascitis), ''granthi''(cystic swelling), ''galaganda'' (goiter), ''shleepada'' (elephantitis), ''pandu''(anemia), ''kushtha''(dermatosis), ''arochaka''(dyspepsia), ''prameha''(diabetes). Emesis induced by inhalation of powdered flower sprinkled over a garland is also described in this chapter. Drugs like ''Yashti, Kovidara, Karbudara, Nipa, Vidula, Bimbi, Shanapushpi, Sadapushpi, Pratyakpushpi, Bilwamoola, Mahajaalini,Jimutaka, Kritavedhana'' and ''Kutaja'' etc. are also incorporated along with ''Ikshvaku'' in various formulations.  

In the chapter on pharmaceutics of ''Ikshvaku'' (Lagenaria siceraria), 45 recipes of ''Ikshvaku'' processed in various media like milk, alcohol, whey, buttermilk, oil cake, clarified butter, meat soup etc. are described. The useful parts like leaves, flower and seeds of ''ikshvaku'' are employed for emesis. A recipe with administration of seeds in an increasing dose from fifty up to maximum hundred seeds per day is described.''Ikshvaku'' is indicated in conditions like ''kasa''(cough), ''shwasa'' (dyspnea/asthma), ''chhardi''(vomiting), ''jwara''(fever), ''visha''(toxin), ''swarabheda''(hoarseness), ''peenasa''(coryza), ''gulma''(lump in abdomen), ''udara''(abdominal swellings including ascitis), ''granthi''(cystic swelling), ''galaganda'' (goiter), ''shleepada'' (elephantitis), ''pandu''(anemia), ''kushtha''(dermatosis), ''arochaka''(dyspepsia), ''prameha''(diabetes). Emesis induced by inhalation of powdered flower sprinkled over a garland is also described in this chapter. Drugs like ''Yashti, Kovidara, Karbudara, Nipa, Vidula, Bimbi, Shanapushpi, Sadapushpi, Pratyakpushpi, Bilwamoola, Mahajaalini,Jimutaka, Kritavedhana'' and ''Kutaja'' etc. are also incorporated along with ''Ikshvaku'' in various formulations.