[Effects] The roots of these drugs possess properties like tikshna (sharply acting), ushna (hot potency), guru(heavy to digest), vikasi, aashukari(quickly acting) and liquifies and expels kapha and pitta, and aggravates vata dosha.
[Various preparations] The different formulations of danti and dravanti for therapeutic purgation are given below: 1. Dadhi - Curd 2. Takra - Butter milk 3. Suramanda – Clear supernatant liquid of sura (a fermented liquid preparation of cooked rice) Sidhu – Fermented preparation sweetening liquids with or without subjecting to heat prepared from following drugs:
पिबेद्गुल्मोदरी दोषैरभिखिन्नश्च यो नरः| गोमृगाजरसैः पाण्डुः कृमिकोष्ठी भगन्दरी||८||
. Priyal - Buchanania lanzan Sprengel. 5. Kola - Zizyphus jujuba Lam. 6. Badara – Zizyphus sativa Gaertn. 7. Pilu - Salvadora persica Linn. One aksha (equivalent to 12 g of metric units) of the root paste of danti and dravanti are mixed with any one of the above seven suitable liquid media and are indicated in gulma, udara and persons affected by morbid doshas. The above mentioned dose of the drug is used with following three liquids which are useful in pandu, krimikostha and bhagandara: 8. Gorasa – Cow’s milk 9. Mrigarasa - the soup of dear meat. 10.Ajarasa - the soup of goat meat.
तयोः कल्के कषाये च दशमूलरसायुते| कक्ष्यालजीविसर्पेषु दाहे च विपचेद्घृतम्||९||
The below mentioned sneha yogas (unctuous formulations) prepared with the kalka of danti and dravanti, decoction of the same two drug and decoction of dashamoola. 11. Ghrita - the medicated ghee is useful in kaksha (herpes), alaji (eruptions), visarpa (erysipelas), daha (burning).
तैलं मेहे च गुल्मे च सोदावर्ते कफानिले| चतुःस्नेहं शकृच्छुक्रवातसङ्गानिलार्तिषु||१०||
12. Taila - the medicated oil is useful in meha, gulma, udavarta kaphavata roga. 13. Chatursneha – (ghrita, taila, vasa, majja) is used in curing the obstruction of shakrit (feces), shukra(semen) and adhovata(flatus) and other vata rogas.