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Jalodara is said to follow drinking much cold water after emesis, purgation, an enema or oleation; the abdomen shakes like a full water-skin, and in its final stage it is called incurable.…

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

A paste of the root of langali (kalihari) is applied to the pregnant woman's abdomen and soles, and the root of dhattura or of apamarga is placed on her head; it is given under the…

The jalodara patient is smeared with oil and bathed with lukewarm water, a cloth is wrapped round the waist, and the abdomen is pierced at the stated place (four fingers below the navel on…

A suitable tube with two openings is placed in the puncture and the fluid is let out little by little; as it drains the waist cloth is tightened more and more, and the wise physician lets…

A two-mouthed tube is set in the puncture and the fluid is let out a little at a time, never all at once for fear of severe thirst, fainting, fever and burning; the waist cloth is tightened…

Alasaka is one of the disorders said to follow indigestion, marked by a full abdomen, listlessness, vomiting, upward-moving wind and retention of stool and urine with severe pain.

Apatanaka is described as vata seizing the tendons of the hands, fingers, abdomen and heart region, with jerks and shaking, vomiting of phlegm, upturned gaze and inability to move the…

Here adhmana is presented as a vata disease of the abdomen: the colon gurgles, there is severe pain and the belly swells like a bag full of air.

The introduction calls surgery (śalya) one of the principal limbs of Ayurveda and says Suśrutācārya set it out in a systematic, scientific way; many surgical treatises existed earlier, by…

Purgation is said to sharpen the sight, strengthen the senses, increase intelligence, bodily strength and the digestive fire, prolong life and remove diseases from faults of stool and…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).

The case where the placenta (apara) does not come out after delivery. A footnote says it causes distension and bloating of the abdomen, and the text treats it by manual removal, kalihari…

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Excessive riding in vehicles, much walking, slipping, sexual intercourse, falls and blows are said to dislodge the fetus from the uterus so that it falls, as fruit falls from a tree; this…

During her period a woman should, like an ascetic, wholly give up violence and the other four sins and keep silence and similar vows; for three days she avoids garlands, ornaments and…

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,…

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…

Aggravated vata spread through the whole body is to be calmed by asthapana and anuvasana enemas given in due order.