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The juice of kanta, which the commentary names musta, is one of five plant juices said always to make mercury pass into the kinds of metal.

The author calls the haritaki kalpa the one that gives people freedom from fear (abhaya), and tells it first.

Lotus root (mṛṇāla, 'कमल की मूली') is listed first among the root vegetables.

Long pepper (pippalī) is said to become richer in special qualities when old, unlike most medicines, which are more potent when fresh.

Neem is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

The footnote says chitraka root becomes purified when kept in lime water.

Emblic (āṃvalā) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse impurities and be sharp.

Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Eating sesame oil is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…

Sugar, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Jaggery, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

Sourness and burning are given as the brief signs of aggravated pitta.

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

An alkali made from the ash of many plants cooked with six parts of cow urine, with spice and mineral powders added during cooking, used as nasya, collyrium and paste against all poisons.

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

Ghee and oil cooked with a paste, ground in the eight urines, and a decoction of about forty plant, mineral and animal substances in equal parts are used in graha disease for drinking,…

Oleating nasya is said to strengthen the throat, blood, head, shoulders and chest and to sharpen the sight; it is used in head disorders from vata, loose teeth, falling of hair and beard,…

Seeing the purified mercury shining with a lustre like the sun, the physician bows to the siddhas and worships it with care, then puts into it a quarter part of suitable, very red bija…

A strong patient is prepared with oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and the like, fed a small light, unctuous, warm meal, and on a clear, mild day in a secluded place laid in an…

The whole श section, entries 1–55 on PDF 756–760, from शक्रमर्द (a kind of tree) to श्वेताम्ली (अम्लिका). It includes शटी (कचूर), शतपुष्पा and शताह्वा (सौंफ, सोआ), शतमूली and शतावरी, शमी,…

Forty-eight entries from पटोल (परवल) to प्लक्ष (पाकड़, पीपल). Among them are पत्र (कचनार, तमालपत्र, तालीसपत्र, नागवेल), पथ्या (हरड़), पद्मक and पद्ममध्य (कमल केशर), पनस, पयोद (मोथा), परूषक…

Forty-one entries from तगर to त्वक् (दालचीनी, bark, the skin of the body). Among them are तमाल (bamboo bark, तमालपत्र, दालचीनी), तरली (a यवागू made of barley flour, liquor, कांजी), तरुणी…

The whole व section, entries 1–53 on PDF 753–756, from वकुला (कुटकी) to व्योष (सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल, that is त्रिकटु). It includes वचा, वज्र and वज्री (थूहर, the diamond, white kusha, mica and…

The whole स section on PDF 760–763, numbered 1–48 with no entry 37 printed, from सद्धातकीकुसुम (धाय flowers) to स्नुही (सेहुंड). It includes समंगा (मजीठ, लाजवंती, खरैटी), सर्ज and साल (the…

Thirty-five entries from नक्त (कलिहारी) to न्यग्रोध (बड़, with नीम and बकायन in the Marathi column). They include three names of करंज (नक्तमार, नक्तमाल, नक्ताह्व), नाग (tin, lead, नागकेशर,…