Reducing the stout body

The text says the stout body is to be made lean with dry medicines, foods and drinks, and that experts recommend for it various purgative preparations together with medicines and diet from the dry, astringent, pungent and bitter groups.

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit: स्थूलकर्शन
Hindi: स्थूल शरीर का क्षीणकरणोपाय
English: Reducing the stout body

Ingredients and preparation

Chapter 3 · p. 34 · v. 41, 43

Indicated for, as the text says

Obesity (medoroga)(स्थूलस्य / स्थूल शरीर)

Therapies involvedTherapeutic purgation (virechana)विरेचन (जुलाब)

स्थूल शरीर वाले को (कृश करने के लिए) विरेचन के नाना प्रकार का योग, रू़ा, कषाय, कटु, तिक्तादिक अैषधिवर्ग, व तत्सदृश आहार ग्रहण आदि उपयुक्र हैं,Source wording as converted, Chapter 3 · p. 34 · v. 41, 43.

Safety

Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.