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Chapter 21 classifies accidental burns into four kinds with their signs and gives a treatment for each, followed by a healing powder and colour restoration.

Burns that happen otherwise than by planned cautery are of four kinds, touched (sprishta), evenly burnt (samyag-dagdha), badly burnt (durdagdha) and over-burnt (atidagdha); their signs,…

Sprishta, samyag-dagdha, durdagdha and atidagdha; a bad burn is sprinkled with lukewarm milk, smeared with ghee and cooling pastes, and its blisters are opened and covered with cool leaves.

A touched burn is badly discoloured and very hot; an even burn is black like sesame, hot and not deep; a bad burn raises many blisters, causes fierce burning pain and settles slowly; an…

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…

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

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,…

Pitta is said to be aggravated by pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and alcohol, and to cause fainting, burning, drying, blisters, delirium and thirst; spread through the…

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.

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.

In the petition to Ṛṣabhanātha, the people say that in the land of action they were afflicted by cold, heat and rain and in the course of time took to wrong food and conduct.

Suppuration of the whole eye, described with swelling and without swelling.

Intense burning in the nose with hot breath from aggravated pitta, treated by the course for raktapitta.

Too little oil in an enema does nothing, and too much drug quickly brings on pravahika, treated as pravahika. A very cold drug provokes vata disorders such as retention and bloating, a very…

In vata hoarseness the voice seems broken and harsh like a donkey's; in pitta hoarseness the throat dries and burns with much thirst; in kapha hoarseness the throat is blocked by phlegm and…

Lists further death signs, from sleeping day and night or not at all, insensitivity to burns, not seeing one's reflection and seeing ghosts, to lice on the forehead and perceiving…

Eruptions that are saucer-shaped with a sunken mouth, have a central knob, are ringed like burns, hard, very red or black with wide mouths, with fever, diarrhoea and colic, or with…

An eyelid disease that follows neglected klishtavartma, with black sticky slime.

Pitta is burning (vidahi), pungent and bitter in taste and very sharp. Wherever it stays aggravated it burns that place and produces diseases there; spread through the whole body it causes…

People of pitta constitution, those with bhinna-koshtha, the emaciated, those with blood collected inside, the exhausted, those with a foreign body, those afflicted by many wounds and those…

Alkali is said always to share the properties of urine. It overcomes kushtha, tumours, nodules, kilāsa, painful urination, piles, corrupted wounds and all worm diseases, and by its fiery…

From aggravated pitta the nose burns intensely and hot, smoke-like breath comes out (diptanasa); it is treated by the course for raktapitta and with pitta treatments.

A stone from kapha with excess pitta is red, black and yellow and shaped like the stone of the marking nut (bhallataka). It blocks the urine, so the bladder burns and seems to cook from…