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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…

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.

Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.

When provoked, dūṣīviṣa causes vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever, burning, breathlessness, cough, intermittent fever, swelling, insanity, diarrhoea and abdominal disease such as…

Sudation must not be given to those suffering from injury or heat, the thirsty, patients with pandu or prameha, those who have fasted, patients with raktapitta, diarrhoea, ascites,…