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Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Fire is called sharper than caustic, curing from the root diseases that kshara, medicine or knife cannot cure. It is not applied to ligaments, bones and joints; the burning means are bone,…