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वृक्षायुर्वेद (सुरपाल - प्राचीन भारतीय पादप-विज्ञान, कृषि एवं वृक्ष-चिकित्सा सटीक)

Vrikshayurveda of Surapala with Commentary

सुरपाल (अनुवादक: नलिनी साधले) द्वारा

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पृष्ठ 60, कुल 101 में से

संदर्भ में पढ़ें
पृष्ठ 60
  1. The diseases of the kafa type can be overcome with
    bitter, strong, and astringent decoctions made out of
    panchamula (roots of five plant species—sriphala,
    sarvatobhadra, patala, ganikarika, and syonaka) with
    fragrant water.
  2. For warding off all kafa type of diseases, the paste
    of white mustard should be deposited at the root and
    the trees should be watered with a mixture of sesame
    and ashes.
  3. In case of trees affected by the kafa disease,
    earth around the roots of the trees should be
    removed and fresh, dry earth should be replaced for
    curing them.
  4. A wise person should treat all types of trees affected
    by the pitta type of diseases with cool and sweet
    substances.
  5. When watered by the decoction of milk, honey,
    yastimadhu, and madhuka, trees suffering from pitta type
    of diseases get cured.
  6. Watered with the decoctions of fruits, triphala, ghee,
    and honey the trees are freed of all diseases of the pitta
    type.
  7. To remove insects both from the roots and branches
    of the trees, wise men should water the trees with cold
    water for seven days.
  8. The worms can be overcome by the paste of milk,
    kunapa water, and cow dung mixed with water and also
    by smearing the roots with the mixture of white
    mustard, vaca, kusta, and ativisa.
  9. The worms accumulated on trees can be treated
    quickly by smoking the tree with the mixture of white
    mustard, ramatha, vidanga, vaca, usana, and water mixed
    with beef, horn of a buffalo, flesh of a pigeon, and the
    powder of bhillata (bhallataka ?).
  10. Anointing with vidanga mixed with ghee, watering
    for seven days with salt water, and (applying) ointment
    made out of beef, white mustard, and sesame destroy
    the worms, insects, etc.
  11. Creepers eaten away by insects should be sprinkled
    with water mixed with oil cake. The insects on the leaves
    can be destroyed by sprinkling the powder of ashes and
    brick-dust.
  12. A wound caused by insects heals if sprinkled with
    milk after being anointed with a mixture of vidanga,
    sesame, cow's urine, ghee, and mustard.
  13. Trees suffering from (damage due to) frost or
    scorching heat should be externally covered. Sprinkling
    with kunapa water and milk is also advisable.
    200–201. The broken trees should be smeared with the
    paste of the bark of plaksa and udumbara mixed with
    ghee, honey, wine, and milk and the broken parts should
    be firmly tied together with the rope of a rice stalk. Fresh
    soil should then be filled in the basin around the trees,
    sprinkled immediately with the milk of buffalo and
    flooded with water. Thus they recover.
  14. (Verse is missing.)
  15. If the branches fall off, the particular spot should
    be anointed with the mixture of honey and ghee and
    sprinkled over by milk and water so that the tree will
    have its branches reaching the sky.
  16. If the branches are burnt they should be cut off
    and the particular spots should be sprinkled with water
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