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A footnote says pitta is aggravated in autumn by the nature of the season, so purgation is given then.

Summer: food rich in milk and ghee, cold drinks, jaggery and sugarcane, and well water. Rains: mainly bitter and astringent food with a little pungent, milk, sugarcane and their products,…

In autumn the verse recommends food with milk, rich in ghee and sugar, with bitter and astringent drinks; the commentary speaks of food with ghee and sugar and food with astringent items,…

For the person of medium body, emesis is to be given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn.

The six seasons, two months each, are listed from Caitra: vasanta (also called madhu, when flowers and fruits flourish) in Caitra and Vaiśākha, grīṣma in Jyeṣṭha and Āṣāḍha, varṣā in…

A footnote says vāta is aggravated in the rainy season by the nature of the season, so enema therapy is given then.

The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…

The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…

For the medium body, emesis is to be given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn; this is how the noble ones preserve the health of the healthy. A footnote…

Kapha gathered in hemanta is aggravated in spring, vata gathered in summer in prāvṛṭ, and pitta gathered in the rains in autumn; at aggravation they are to be removed, vata by enema, pitta…

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,…

Six seasons of two months each from Caitra: spring (vasanta, also called madhu, when flowers and fruits flourish) in Caitra–Vaiśākha, summer in Jyeṣṭha–Āṣāḍha, the rains in…

The text says that for the medium (healthy) body emesis is given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn, as the way the noble ones preserve the health of the…

Cautery is avoided in summer and autumn; in an urgent disease curable only by fire it is done after measures opposing the season, such as cool coverings, cool food, a cool place and cool…

Each day runs through the six seasons as the year does: forenoon is spring, midday summer, afternoon or evening prāvṛṭ, the first part of the night the rains, midnight autumn and the…

Emesis is given in the moderate season (the commentary: the early rains, autumn and spring, without great cold or heat), on the morning after the evening meal, by giving emetic drugs as…

In the moderate season (neither very cold nor very hot: the early rains, autumn and spring, per the commentary), on the morning after the meal, the physician gives emetic drugs in a proper…

Exercise is to be avoided by those with raktapitta, breathlessness, cough, hiccup, wounds or fever, by one who is sweating, one weakened by excess sexual intercourse and a child; the verse…