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

and milk and smoked with the shells of the crab, etc.
Thus treated the trees will put forth fresh sprouts.
205. If the trees are scorched with fire the whole tree
should be smeared with mud from the lotus creeper and
then should be watered with kunapa mixture. Then its
branches grow up to the sky.
206. When anointed with vidari, sugar, nagajivha (red
arsenic), and sesame mixed together and when
sprinkled with milk-water, trees struck with lightning
put forth healthy sprouts.
207. Trees which are dried up due to heat caused by
fire are cured when a mixture of sugar, sesame, and milk
is used for watering and anointing them and when they
are smeared all round by the mud from the bottom of a
lotus plant.
208. If dried due to bad soil, the original soil from the
root should be removed and it should be replaced by
healthy soil and milk-water should be sprinkled over
it.
209. If the drying is due to the lack of water, the trees
should be watered with milk-water and properly
fomented by the smoke of crab shells.
210. The wounds of the trees are healed by the treatment
of anointing with the paste of the bark of nyagrodha and
udumbara, cow dung, honey, and ghee.
211. The oozing can be cured by the (above stated) paste
and by covering the part with the barks of dhava,
sriparnika, syama, vetasa, and arjuna.
212. Diseases caused by wrong treatment can be
conquered by sprinkling the mixture of water and milk
and also by applying a paste of vidanga mixed with thick
mud.
213. Jaundice can be brought under control only in
weeks by sprinkling water mixed with the powder of
barley and wheat added to honey and milk.
214. Non-productive trees bear fruits and flowers to
one's complete satisfaction when they are fed with milk
and kunapa water.
215. Unproductive trees fill the quarters with branches
covered with flowers and fruits without fail if treated
with cold mixture (?) of sesame, barley, kulattha, green
gram, and black gram.
216–217. Sesame and the dung of the goat and sheep
each measuring one adhaka (256 handfuls), barley
measuring one prastha (64 handfuls), water measuring
one drona (1024 handfuls), and corresponding quantity
of beef if allowed to set for seven nights and then used
for watering, the trees put forth flowers and fruits.
218. They produce fruits also if watered with the thick
mixture of the flesh of tiger, leopard, and fox and with
milk of elephant and buffalo.
219. Tender plants suffering from excess watering
should be scratched with nails, uprooted, and every root
should be smeared with the mixture of honey and
vidanga and then should be watered.
220. Vegetables of cucumber types get cured of diseases
when smoked around by the bones of cow and dog
mixed with excreta of cat.
221. Very tender plants should not be exposed to
excessive smoking. Excessive smearing, although gentle,
also should be avoided by the wise.
222. Plants which are not cured by any one of the
various above-stated remedies should be transplanted
at other special sites.
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