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Bathua is named with cillī and amaranth as greens wholesome in pitta.

Ash gourd (kuṣmāṇḍa, white gourd), which the commentary names for the verse's 'creeper fruits', is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

हिन्दी: लोध, चिल्ली, शाक, बथुवा · मराठी: लोध्र, रक्तचील, चाकवत

हिन्दी: बथुआ शाक, वसु, कृष्णागरु, पुनर्नवा · मराठी: चाकवत, जीवशाक, राजार्क

Barley, like wheat, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

The introduction says the gross dhātus appear in increasing order as animal bodies become more complex: some creatures have only rasa and rakta, some rasa, rakta and māṁsa, and some rasa,…

Excessive use of pungent things is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

Shāli rice is described as sweet and cooling and light in digestion, and therefore as removing pitta, increasing kapha and bringing on much urine.

Rice, black gram, barley, shashtika rice and wheat, well roasted and ground, mixed with ghee and jaggery and given with buffalo milk, are said to destroy wasting cough.

Sand, with coarse grains and the like, is named as material for the warm bed used for sudation.

हिन्दी: चित्रक वृक्ष, रक्तचित्रक वृक्ष, भल्लातक, निंबूक, स्वर्ण, केशर, पीतवाला, पित्त, चीता वृक्ष, लाल चीता, भिलावे का वृक्ष, नींबू का झाड़, सोना · मराठी: विस्तव, चित्रक, बिबवा, रक्तचित्रक,…

हिन्दी: कड़वे पडवल · मराठी: सोन पडवळ

Amaranth greens (chaulāī; verse taṇḍulīyaka) are named with cillī and bathua as greens wholesome in pitta.

Cillī is named with bathua and amaranth as greens wholesome in pitta; a footnote glosses it as gandharāsnā.

Jīvantī, aloe (taruṇī), vidhārā, vandā, mañjikā, kundalatā, cañcu and kundru are described as binding the stool and producing vata; māriṣa, the two kinds of spinach, vahā and jīvantī as…