Arkam ilai kootu

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Ingredients:

• Tender leaves of Arka | Calotropis procera | मन्दरा | வெள்ளை எருக்கு
• Wet palm leaves
• Salt, spices
• Clarified butter i.e. ghee
• Camphor
• Pugapatta (cloth smeared with betel nut scum, says the book

Preparation of Arkam ilai Kootu:

• Collect tender leaves of எருக்கு and cook with wet palm leaves
• To remove the bitterness of the leaves of the leaves, cut them into small pieces and mix them with salt and spices
• Fry it with ghee
• Make them fragrant with camphor and tie it with pugapatta
• The leaves should be thrown in heated ghee and served for meals
• It alleviates vAta

अर्कस्य तरुणमानीय दलमात्रन्तु सूदराट् । आर्द्रतालदलैस्तिक्तं तद्गतं परिमोचयेत् ॥ ४६९ ॥

कल्किन्या तद्दलं सूक्ष्मं च्छित्वा तत्प्रवणीं नयेत् । लवणादीन् विनिक्षिप्य सर्पिषा भर्जयेच्च तत् ॥ ४७० ॥

वासयेत् घनसारेण वेष्टयेत क्रमुकस्य च । तप्ते सर्पिषि निक्षिप्य दापयेत्तद्दलं बुधः ॥ ४७१ ॥

विपाकसमये तत्तु समीरणहरं भवेत् ॥ ४७२ ॥

P. 72 of Pākdarpaṇa of Nala by Dr. Madhulika

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