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The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…

A footnote identifies kaṇikā, named in the list of tasty, nourishing, poison-countering tubers wholesome in vata disorders, as the agnimantha tree.

हिन्दी: चित्रक वृक्ष, रक्तचित्रक वृक्ष, भल्लातक, निंबूक, स्वर्ण, केशर, पीतवाला, पित्त, चीता वृक्ष, लाल चीता, भिलावे का वृक्ष, नींबू का झाड़, सोना · मराठी: विस्तव, चित्रक, बिबवा, रक्तचित्रक,…

A minor disease from all three doshas: a burning eruption at the trika, neck, hands, flanks and feet, declared untreatable, with death within about fifteen days.

Fire is called sharper than caustic, curing from the root diseases that kshara, medicine or knife cannot cure. It is not applied to ligaments, bones and joints; the burning means are bone,…

For those whose digestive fire has become weak through oleation and the other procedures, the text gives in succession hot water, water boiled and then cooled, yavagu, vilepi, yusha, an…

Cautery is applied to the brows and temples in head disorders and adhimantha, and to the eyelid hair follicles in eyelid disorders with the eye covered by a wet cloth; it is also named for…

An eruption at the trika (the joint below the spine where three bones meet), neck, hands, flanks and feet, from all doshas aggravated, burning like the flame of a forest fire and deadly…

Samana vata is said to live in the abdomen (stomach and intestines), to help kindle the digestive fire, hence its name agnisakha (companion of fire), and to digest food.

Heading that opens the description of cauterisation with fire (agnikarma).

A footnote defines balanced fire as the fire that properly digests food taken in the proper amount.

Irregular digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated vāta.

Arguing that plants have the power to remove even the most terrible diseases, the editor asks whether Samantabhadrācārya's bhasmaka disease was not removed by Ayurvedic medicine.

Weak digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated kapha.

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.103), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Kālāgnirudra rasa, also called Agnituṇḍī, for the eighty vāta disorders. Purified mercury, viṣa, sulphur,…

For semen that smells of faeces, an excellent ghee prepared with trikatu, triphala, agnimantha, lotus flower and musta is given to drink.

A child seized by the Rakshasa graha is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha; warm kanji may also be used for bathing.

To strengthen (brimhana) mercury the text says it should always be made fire-resistant (agnisaha) by tapana, vasana and kasana, in the order of the Jina doctrine, by which it becomes very…

It is to be left untreated; the patient lives fifteen days at most.

Marking nut (bhilāvā; verse āruṣkara) fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Chapter 21 classifies accidental burns into four kinds with their signs and gives a treatment for each, followed by a healing powder and colour restoration.

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