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The introduction defines bala as the strength of the body and says it is of three kinds: arising from time (kālaja), inborn (sahaja) and produced by proper means (yuktikṛta).

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

Bala graha is described as the seizure of children by grahas, each with its own signs and its own baths, oils, ghee, fumigations, amulets and offerings.

Oil pressed from black sesame soaked many times in bala-root decoction is cooked again and again with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction; called Shatapaka Bala taila, taken by the…

Oil cooked a hundred times (by the shatapaka method) with the decoction and paste of bala is given as an oil enema to childless women and men who have been prepared by oleation, sweating,…

After the intestinal enlargement has been declared incurable, bala oil or castor oil with rock salt is given to drink as part of vata-reducing treatment.

The verse says balance (sāmya) is a state of good calm; appetite, digestion and strength are its marks, wholesome and measured diet is its means, and strength is held to bring the…

An eye disease: a raised knot on the white of the eye like a soft bud or a bimbi fruit.

हिन्दी: उशीर, खस · मराठी: बाला

हिन्दी: खिरैंटी · मराठी: नागवेल, मद्य, रानताग, मोदिनी, महासमंगा, बिडंग, जयन्ती

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

For ear disease, the head is saturated with bala oil, or a cotton pad soaked in the oil is kept on the head; nasal medication and pouring oil into the ear are also beneficial.

Bala root, a tulā of it in the verse, is dried well and powdered. After purifying the body (the commentary: by emesis and the like), half a pala of it (the commentary: two tolas) is taken…

Bala root, dried and powdered, is taken daily after purification of the body (the commentary: by emesis and the like), half a pala (the commentary: two tolas) with milk, with food of ghee…

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

Milk mixed with shilavalka powder is cooked into kheer (payasa); eaten constantly, the text says, it makes even a very weak person very strong within a month.

Oil pressed from black sesame soaked many times in bala-root decoction and dried is cooked again and again with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction; taken by the rasayana regimen to…

Awned barley and black sesame are dried, soaked repeatedly in goat's milk, burnt by the method of alkali making, the ash filtered with water and cooked; this alkali is applied with a probe…

The physician observes the child's form and bodily behaviour and questions the wet nurse to examine for disorders caused by spirits (balagraha); if a graha is present, its full treatment is…