Pinda

Pinda (rice/grain balls) are prepared by shaping cooked rice or grain flour into balls. They are heavy and nourishing. The properties depend on the grain used and the method of preparation.

• Brumhana (nourishing)

Anjana Bheda – kinds of eye salve प डो रस या चुणि गुरौ म ये लघौ दोषे तां धैवा जनक पना मेण योजयेत ् Pinda – pill – used in profound imbalance of Dosha Rasakriya – gel, confection, semisolid got from boiling decoction till solidity - used in moderate imbalance of Dosha Churna – powder are the three forms of Anjana – used in mild imbalance of Dosha.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Aschotana Anjana Vidhi

14 हरे णुमा ा प ड य ती ण य, वगुणं त य म ृद ुनः The quantity of Pinda anjana prepared from strong herbs is one Harenu.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Aschotana Anjana Vidhi

This oil known as pinda taila, if applied on the body alleviates pain in vatarakta.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 29: Gout Treatment (Vatarakta Chikitsa / वातरक्तचिकित्सा)

[123] This ends the explanation of pinda tailam.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 29: Gout Treatment (Vatarakta Chikitsa / वातरक्तचिकित्सा)

— should prepare pinda-anjanas (solid collyrium pills) diligently according to the prescribed formulations.

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 18: Chapter 18

The patient, having been oleated and purged, should be treated with vata-alleviating sudation — with tube sudation (nadi sveda) and bolus sudation (pinda sveda).

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 21: Chapter 21

plaster of Vikamkata roots, Aragvadha, Kakananti, Kakadani, Tapasa-Vriksha, Pinda-phala, Arka, Bhargi with Kaphaja drugs;

— Sushruta Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana, Chapter 18: Granthi-Apachi-Arvuda-Galaganda Chikitsa

plaster of Vikamkata roots, Aragvadha, Kakananti, Kakadani, Tapasa-Vriksha, Pinda-phala, Arka, Bhargi with Kaphaja drugs;

— Sushruta Samhita, Granthi-Apachi-Arvuda-Galaganda Chikitsa