Excessive action (atiyoga) and its treatment

Very sharp medicine given to someone thoroughly oleated and sweated with a very soft bowel causes atiyoga. Excessive emesis brings out too much pitta with exhaustion, loss of strength and provoked vata, and is treated with a cold-water bath and purging with sugarcane juice and cooling drugs; excessive purgation brings out kapha and then blood, and is treated with cold water, emesis with cold liquorice decoction (verse), cold milk-ghee asthapana and anuvasana enemas and the regimen for diarrhoea. Graver signs (bloody spittle and vomit, bulging eyes, protruding tongue, jaw stiffness, chandrika water, meat-wash water, life-blood, rectal prolapse, trembling) each get their own measures.