Explore the knowledge

A minor disease: very hard, mouthless eruptions in the flesh with a little pus, from kapha and vata.

From kapha and vata arise alaji, very hard, mouthless eruptions in the flesh with little pus, and yava (yavaprakhya), hard eruptions shaped like barley grains; from pitta arises vivrita, a…

A hard, black, very painful knot-like swelling of the junction, arising from kapha and discharging much, is called alaji.

Vidarika is hard and round like the vidari tuber and painful; vidradhi, painful and arising from all the doshas, is of five kinds but is described here as two, savarnaka and shighravidahi;…

Cumin leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

हिन्दी: कृष्णजीरक, श्वेतजीरक, काकोदुंबरिका, काला जीरा, सफेद जीरा, कठूंबर · मराठी: श्वेत जिरे, कृष्ण जिरे, काळा उंबर

हिन्दी: अलसी, मसीना · मराठी: जवस

हिन्दी: अलसी, सूरजमुखी के फूल, हुलहुल वृक्ष, सज्जीखार, अश्वगंध · मराठी: सूर्यफूलवल्ली, ब्राह्मी, जवस

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Ten kinds of boils said to occur in prameha patients, each named after its form; they arise from the three doshas and show their signs.

A junction disease of the eye: the alaji swelling once it has ripened and discharges pus.

A tridoshic disease in which the black circle of the eye is covered all over with whiteness; described as incurable.

Among diseases born of all three doshas, nakulandhya, puyasrava, netrapaka and alaji are incurable and to be avoided; kacha and pakshmakopa of the eyelid are palliable.

Sharavika and the other boils have names that match their form and qualities: the one resembling an abscess is called vidradhi, and alaji is the one covered with red blisters. The author…

The diseases of all the junctions of the eye are of nine kinds only, to be described in order with their treatment. A movable, very soft, painless and very red pimple at the junction of the…

Prameha patients get ten kinds of boils: sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata.

Parvani, alaji, puyalasa, kaphopanaha, four kinds of discharge (kapha, pitta, blood and pus) and krimigranthi.

Sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata; they are treated with leeches and strong purgation, ripening applications, incision,…