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Chap.XLVI.] potency and proves curative in cases of haemoptysis. The Pushkara fruit is sweet, and is long retained in the stomach in an undigested state. It produces the Kapham and is tonic, and heavy of digestion (hard to digest). Raw and tender Vilva fruit subdues the Vayu and Kapham. It is keen, demulcent astringent, and appetising, has a pungent, bitter and astringent taste, and is heat-making in its potency, while in its ripe state it leaves a sweet after-taste. Further it is heavy of digestion, can be but incompletely digested, and is long retained in the stomach, causing it thus to distend and producing the emission of a fetid-smelling flatus. The Vimvi fruit, as well as that known as the Ashva karna, is galactagoguic. They destroy the Pittam and Kapham and prove beneficial in cases of thirst, burning sensation of the skin, fever, haemoptysis, cough, asthma and consumption.

The fruits such as, the Tala, Narikela, Panasa and Maucha, etc. are sweet in taste and of digestion, and subdue the Vayu and Pittam. They are cooling in their potencies, and act as constructive tonics. Of these the fruit of a Tala is sweet in taste and heavy of digestion. It subdues the deranged Pittam. The pulp found inside its seeds is sweet of digestion and diuretic, and it subdues the Vayu and Pittam. The Narikela fruit is heavy of digestion, demulcent, anti-choleric, sweet, cooling in its potency.