Summary of the treatment of vatarakta

One who regularly takes purgation, bloodletting and enemas, keeps poultices applied and takes cool food and drink of sweet, astringent and bitter taste overcomes vatarakta and raktapitta. The next verse adds that diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying do not arise without pitta, though they also arise with vata, kapha and all three doshas and are named after the dominant one; so vatatisara is named after vata though its root is pitta.