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Bathing or sprinkling the raktapitta patient with cold water or with milk is said to be beneficial.

The wise physician bathes the seized child near a milky-sap tree such as the banyan or pipal, and always protects him with mantras and yantras of the guardian deities of the Jain teaching.…

A garland or pouch made of the feathers of the nilakantha (chasha) bird, vulture and peacock with snake slough is worn; an offering of coloured rice is given, and the child is bathed in a…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

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…

The commentary adds bathing the raktapitta patient with a decoction of red sandalwood, nut grass and vetiver.

Pitta is pacified mainly by cooling measures: cold food and drink, streams of very cold water poured over the body, bathing, staying in a cool house and cool breezes, which are said to…

A decoction of khadira heartwood alone, drunk continually and used for bathing in kushtha.

The raktapitta patient is bathed with a decoction of the bark of jambu, kadamba and neem, or with milk, or with cold water scented with sandalwood.

Bathing is said to give contentment, nourishment, lustre, health and long life, purity and balance of the doshas, to kindle the digestive fire, remove lethargy and sleepiness, calm sin,…

The clean powder of the bhallataka stone, recognised by its place and other signs, is collected. One adhaka each of the stone powder, the best cow ghee, bhallataka oil and pure jaggery is…

A special black stone called bhallataka stone is found three kos east of the famous city of Kolipaka, beside a village of the same name. One adhaka each of its powder, cow ghee, bhallataka…

Opening lines of the sixth chapter, whose running head names it Rasāyanavidhi. It opens with the section on the daily regimen: cleaning the teeth, oiling and massage, exercise, rubbing with…

In every kind of fainting, cold things are used in bathing, pastes, food, clothing, drinks and breeze, and foods such as licorice, dhataki flowers, grapes, milk, ghee, chironji, sugarcane…

A child seized by the Kinnara graha is massaged with sesame oil prepared with vata-pacifying, fragrant drugs and bathed in water prepared with the same drugs.

Not all water is fit for bathing and drinking; some is like poison. Ground water in the rainy season is said to cause many severe diseases, while rain water caught from the sky before it…

Marks of a long life are listed: soft, fleshy, glossy hands and feet like aśoka shoots or lotuses with many auspicious lines; long, fleshy ears; eyes like blue lotuses; teeth like pearls or…

A child seized by the Rakshasa graha is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha; warm kanji may also be used for bathing.

The Kinnara graha is described as one of the cruel grahas that seize children, recognised by a fixed stare, a blood-like body odour, a crooked mouth, a twitching eyelid, refusal of the…

Drava sweating is seating the patient in a large vessel such as a cauldron filled with heated sour gruel, water, ghee, oil or milk and bathing him to bring on sweat. The commentary says it…

To pacify pitta, cooling measures are mainly to be used: cold food and drink, pouring streams of very cold water, bathing, staying in a cool house and cool breezes remove even the strong…