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

Table 1. continued
Disorder | Cause given | Symptoms | Cause elaborated | Possible causes | Treatment materials
| | | | | be filled in the basin, sprinkled with buf-
| | | | | falo milk and water. If branches fall off, the
| | | | | particular spot should be dressed with the
| | | | | mixture of honey and ghee and sprinkled
| | | | | over with milk and water.
| Fire/lightning, | Drying of trees; | na⁷ | Same as causes | Burnt branches should be cut off and cuts
| soil aridity, water | symptoms simi- | | given. | should be sprinkled with water and milk,
| stress | lar to vata-type if | | | and smoked by burning crab shells. If
| | exposed to heat | | | scorched with fire, whole tree should be
| | on arid soils. | | | smeared with lotus mud and then should
| | | | | be watered with kunapa mixture. Tree struck
| | | | | with lightning should be anointed with
| | | | | vidari, sugar, red arsenic, and sesame mixed
| | | | | together and then sprinkled with milk-wa-
| | | | | ter. In case soil is bad, it should be replaced
| | | | | with good soil and sprinkled with milk-
| | | | | water. Water-stress: water with milk-water
| | | | | and foment by crab shell smoke.
| Struck by axe, | Trees wounded | na | Same as causes | Tree wounds are healed if paste of the bark
| etc. | resulting in dry- | | given. | of nyagrodha and udumbara, cow dung,
| | ing up. | | | honey, and ghee is applied.
| Faulty seed | Trees become un- | Lack of appropri- | Seed infected with | Seed should be treated with milk, mustard,
| | productive. | ate seed treatment; | pathogens or in- | ash of sesame and brhati, rubbing with cow
| | | wrong remedies | fested by insects. | dung, honey, and/or vidanga (see verses
| | | used. | | 52-57).
| Ants | Foul smell, origi- | na | Ants could mean a | Worms (caterpillars?) accumulated on trees
| | nal fragrance | | wide range of in- | can be removed by smoking with a mixture
| | missing; reduc- | | sects. | of white mustard, ramatha, vidanga, vaca,
| | tion of leaf size, | | | usana, and water mixed with beef, horn of
| | stunted seed- | | | a buffalo, flesh of a pigeon, and powder of
| | lings. | | | bhallata; anointing trees with vidanga mixed
| | | | | with ghee, watering for 7 days with soft
| | | | | water, and applying ointment made out of
| | | | | beef, white mustard, and sesame; sprinkling
| | | | | powder of ashes and brick-dust.
| Excessive water- | Symptoms simi- | Trees suffer from | Same as cause | Tender plants should be scratched with
| ing | lar to those pro- | indigestion. | given. | nails, uprooted, and every root should be
| | duced in case of | | | smeared with the mixture of honey and
| | damage by ants. | | | vidanga, and then watered.
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