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Draft translation of claims made by the source. This is unverified historical material, not treatment advice.

Taking tulsi leaf juice with honey cures fever due to common cold. In Sannipatna fever, when the body gets cold, massaging mustard seed oil to bring heat is relaxing. Take asafoetida and camphor in equal parts and make a pill (camphor-kingvati pill which is also available at the medicine man there) Take one to two pills and drink it in ginger juice, Sannipat (lovely) fever is cured and the pain becomes conscious. Drinking carrot juice stops diarrhoea. Drinking a decoction of chitu bark stops diarrhoea. Drinking the ashes of dates with cold water stops diarrhoea. Licking the ashes of cardamom in honey stops diarrhoea.

Drinking a little salt and lemon juice in slightly warm water cures diarrhoea and dysentery. Eating five tulsi leaves and two grams of sanchal salt in 50 grams of curd cures diarrhoea and dysentery. Dysentery is cured by consuming butter, honey and sugar. 7 Dysentery is cured by taking a mango pulp mixed with curd or rice flour. Taking pepper powder in buttermilk cures dysentery. Eating fenugreek flour in curd cures dysentery. Dysentery is cured by taking black grapes in fenugreek vegetable juice. Applying the juice of ginger cures diarrhea and dysentery.

Dysentery is cured by mixing dried ginger with hot water and making a decoction of dried ginger and adding 3 rupees worth of castor beans to it. Dysentery is cured by heating lemon juice with rock salt and sugar. Extracts of ajwain, harad, rock salt and asafoetida cure dysentery.