मात्राकालाश्रया युक्तिः, सिद्धिर्युक्तौ प्रतिष्ठिता| तिष्ठत्युपरि युक्तिज्ञो द्रव्यज्ञानवतां सदा ||१६||
Yukti (rational therapeutics): Therapeutic aptness or rational therapy depends on the matra (dose) and kala(time). Success of the treatment depends on yukti (rational therapeutics). But prior to the application of yukti (rational therapeutics) the physician should always possess complete knowledge about drugs.
Description of various medicated yavagu (gruels): Here after I will explain different gruels prepared with various medicinal herbs to eradicate curable diseases.
[Ingredients and benefits of various medicated yavagu (gruels)] Gruel for enhancing digestion and colic pain: Gruel prepared with Pippali (Piper longum L.), Pippalimoola (Piper longum L.), Chavya (Piper retrofractum Vahl), Chitraka (Plumbago zeylanica L.) and Nagara (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) stimulates agni (digestion power) and cures colic pain.
Gruels for digestion, styptic action and vata dominant diarrhoea: Gruel prepared with Dadhittha (Limonia acidissima Groff), Bilwa [Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa], Changeri (Oxalis corniculata L.), Takra (buttermilk), Dadima (Punica granatum L.) are pachana (digestive) and grahi (styptic and promoting absorption of liquid). Whereas thin gruel prepared with Panchamoola (roots of five herbs- Sthiradi Panchamoola) are beneficial in disorders of vata (dominant diarrhea).
शालपर्णीबलाबिल्वैः पृश्निपर्ण्या च साधिता| दाडिमाम्ला हिता पेया पित्तश्लेष्मातिसारिणाम् ||२०||
Gruel used in diarrhoea with dominance of pitta and kapha: Gruel prepared with Shalaparni (Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC.), Bala (Sida cordifolia L.), Bilwa (Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa), Prishnaparni (Uraria picta (Jacq.) DC.), Amla dadima (sour pomegranate)/Punica granatum L.) is beneficial in pitta and shleshmaja atisara (diarrhoea with dominant pitta and kapha).