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Black gram (māṣa) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

As the alternative in verse 34, some dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery is eaten daily; the same claim is made, that even an old man could go to seventy women without fatigue.

Pox lesions that discharge constantly are pressed repeatedly with pastes of black gram and barley.

Goat's milk mixed with a decoction of black gram, ghee and plenty of jaggery is drunk at night; the text says that one could then go to women joyfully seven times in each watch of the night.

Well-cooked black gram, rubbed in a mortar and soaked in good ghee, is fed when stool is retained in gulma.

Flour of shali rice, black gram and sesame is made into cakes (pūpa); the verse has them cooked with milk and ghee mixed with sugar, and the commentary has them eaten with sugar, milk and…

Cakes of shali rice, black gram and sesame flour, cooked with milk and ghee mixed with sugar (the commentary: eaten with sugar, milk and ghee), are said to nourish and to help satisfy a…

Black gram is described as slimy, cold, very sweet, aphrodisiac and body-building, heavy to digest and kapha-producing; it checks raktapitta, moves stool, urine and wind, and is always best…

A sour horse-gram preparation (kanji) with black pepper powder is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

The opposing claim that some substances become like poison when combined is called unproven, contradictory and inconclusive: for some people, those who eat everything, habitually eat before…

Jaggery, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

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…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

The consumptive may drink ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa (called vrisha or vasa ghee), eat cakes (pua) of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice flour, and eat…

For vata in the head, a cap-shaped sleeve of leather or thick leather-like cloth, open at top and bottom, is fixed on the head, its join sealed with black gram paste, and filled with…

A minor disease from vata and blood: patches on the body the shape of black gram.

Sesame and black gram powders with ashvagandha powder, drunk with milk mixed with ghee and jaggery, together with daily rubbing of ashvagandha paste, are said to make a consumptive person…

Saktu mixed with milk cream, or a dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery, is eaten daily; the text says even an old man could then go to seventy women without fatigue.

Saktu (sattu) mixed with milk cream (the commentary: malai) is eaten daily. Of this and the black gram alternative in the same verse the text says that even an old man could then go to…

Cakes (pua) made from flour of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice are to be eaten by the consumptive.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…