Padari Tamarind leaves Kootu

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source Chhajed

Ingredients

• Stereospermum suaveolens | पाटली | Padari leaves
• Tamarind leaves
• Lavanika leaves (insa)
• Spices
• Ghee
• Aromatic ingredients like Camphor
• Pugapatta (cloth with betel nut scum says the book, elusive so far)

Preparation of vegetable of Patali leaves and its properties:

• The uninfested fresh tender leaves of Padari should be cut into small pieces and kept in vessel
• Add leaves of tamarind and lavanika and cook them
• Mix with spices and ghee and make it fragrant with camphor etc
• Tie it with pugapatta and serve for meals
• This preparation alleviates vAta. It is wholesome and subsides disorders caused by cough and pitta

पाटलीपर्णमादाय तरुणं व्रणवर्जितम् । संच्छित्वा सूक्ष्मकल्किन्यां प्रविण्यां प्रक्षिपेत्तः ॥ ४७३ ॥
चिञ्चालवणिकापत्रं निक्षिप्य विपचेच्च तत् । तत्र विद्वान् प्रकुर्वीत सर्वसम्भारमेलनम् ॥ ४७४ ॥
स्नेहश्रेष्ठं च तत्कुर्यात् वासरादींश्च पूर्ववत् । समीरहरणं पथ्यं कफपित्तहरं भवेत् ॥ ४७५ ॥
P.72 of  Pākdarpaṇa of Nala by Dr. Madhulika

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