Astanga Hrudaya

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रूक्षोष्णमम्लं कौसुम्भं गुरु पित्तकरं सरम्।गुरूष्णं सार्षपं बद्धविण्मूत्रं सर्वदोषकृत् ॥१०१॥

Kousumbha is dry, hot in potency, sour, hard to digest increase pitta and makes the bowels to move. Sarsapa (mustard) is not easily digestible, hot in potency, binds the faeces and urine and causes increase of all the dosas. Mulaka (radish), when tender and not having definite taste, is slightly alkaline and better, mitigates the dosas, easily digestible hot in potency, and cures abdominal tumours, cough, asthma, ulcers, disease of he eye and throat, horseness of voice, asthma, upward movement inside the abdomen (reverse peristalsis) and chronic nasal catarrh.

english translation

rUkSoSNamamlaM kausumbhaM guru pittakaraM saram।gurUSNaM sArSapaM baddhaviNmUtraM sarvadoSakRt ॥101॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript