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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,…

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.

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.

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,…

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…

By the method of the previous oil, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and…

By the same method, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and mashaparni. A…

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…

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil, are to be used for vaginal tarpana (placing a cloth soaked in oil in the vagina), affusion of the body,…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil (described next), are to be used for vaginal tarpana (a cloth soaked in oil placed in the vagina),…

The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

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.

The ear patient drinks lukewarm ghee mixed with milk; the head is saturated with bala oil (or an oil-soaked cotton pad is kept on it), and nasal medication and oil poured into the ear are…

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…

Intermittent fevers (ekantara, santata, satata, anyedyushka, tritiyaka, chaturthaka and others) are treated with dosha-specific medicines and preparations made from them; for those with…

Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd…

Intestinal enlargement is to be declared incurable from the start; then vata-reducing treatment is tried with great effort, and bala oil (described in the childbirth section, says a…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.

A hot decoction of bharangi, the three myrobalans and the three pungents is drunk to digest kapha fever.