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Very sharp, fearsome instruments used in bloodletting are said to bring great comfort; quoting Sushruta (the chapter and verse numbers are garbled), the text gives the signs of blood…

For nilika the physician should apply suitable calming measures such as bloodletting and pastes, using his own judgement.

Akshipaka with or without swelling is to be overcome by bloodletting from the vessels and by purification (samshodhana).

For vata lodged in the skin and vessels the text prescribes repeated bloodletting; for vata that has reached the bones, joints and dhamanis, quick sudation followed by binding.

In puyalasa blood should be let quickly, and a poultice (upanaha) of leaves is also proper.

Some say blood vitiated by vata is drawn with a horn, by pitta with leeches and by kapha with a gourd that has fire in it; others hold that any suitable means may be used for any dosha. The…

A vein above or below the bite is tied well and pierced with an instrument to let blood (opening the vein); when the poison pervades the whole body, a vein at the tips of the hands and feet…

One of the veins above and below the bite is tied and pierced with an instrument to let blood; if the poison has spread through the whole body, a vein of the panchanga (hands, feet or…

Emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days and head purgation every three days.

For kushtha in the blood, the measures of skin kushtha (emesis, purgation) and application are combined with bloodletting and decoctions; for kushtha in the flesh, the same purifications…

Shlipada is to be treated with drugs that calm all the doshas and with procedures such as bandaging and abundant bloodletting.

Emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days and head purgation every three days are called the course for all kushtha. Without further headings the…

For one month: anger, sex, long sitting, much walking or standing, overexertion, loud speech, grief, heavy food, riding, sun, cold water, strong wind, day sleep and other unsuited things.

A horn for blood vitiated by vata, leeches for pitta and a gourd with fire in it for kapha.

After the spoilt blood has been let out, the poisoned person is bathed in cold water and then given medicines to drink with curd, ghee and milk.

The insane patient is laid in a dark, foul-smelling well full of corpses, and the physician lets blood by puncturing all the forehead veins.

For prameha boils, leeches are first applied over the boils to let blood, and then strong purgation is given; the text warns that the madhumeha patient is hard to purge.

Once the spoilt blood is removed, the text says all the poison quickly goes; the patient is then bathed in cold water and afterwards given medicines with curd, ghee and milk.

For pitta-type sprouts the tongue is first rubbed with rough leaves to draw blood, and then drugs of the cooling and heating groups (as the commentary reads them), soaked in ghee, are…

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…

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…

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

Vyanga is described as a black patch on the face from blood, pitta, vata and emotional and heat causes; nilika, large black patches on the body or face, is described next and treated with…

Bhagandara is described as a very painful boil near the anus, within two finger-breadths of it, that bursts there. Five kinds are named after vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas and injury…