This is the application of medicines made of herbs/metals, organic & inorganic salts to the affected areas and bandaging it.

The raw drugs and medicines like leaves bran etc are either ground or cooked. This is then tied or bandaged in affected part. The dry stems of Cissus quadrangularis with juice of Calotropis gigantea can be applied as a compress in small joint swelling (Polyarthritis)23. This is probably related to Rheumatoid arthritis. Equal quantity of the leaves of Cadaba indica (Vizhuthi), Justicia tranquebarasensis (Thavasu murungai) and Cassia
auriculata (Aavaarai) are crushed with three cloves of Allium sativum (Vellai poondu) and are soaked in warm castor oil and used as a bandage for six days in patient suffering from arthritis. If it is chronic and if the patient does not recover in six days the prognosis would be poor12. Cissus quandrangularis(Pirandai), Coccinia indica (Kovai), Acorus calamus (Vasambu), Piper nigrum (Milagu), Allium sativum (Poondu) are crushed and the juice is consumed internally and the remaining material is
applied on swelling and bandaged for seven days.

This is very helpful in vertebral problems11. Saute Euphorbia tirucalli (Thirikalli) with castor oil and add crushed leaves of Clerodendrum phlomidis (Thazhuthazhai), Vitex negundo (Nochi) to it and
apply on the heel of the foot as a compress for treating Achilles tendinitis and calcaneal spur. Gynandropsis gynandra (Thaivelai) is crushed and
applied on the opposite toe and bandaged for three days for treating scrotal swelling11.

Yellow lumps is triturated with castor oil, subsequently with butter and applied for corn foot 11 Gynandropsis gynandra (Thaivelai) is crushed and applied on the opposite toe and bandaged for three days for
treating scrotal swelling.