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The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

All disorders of the body are said to have causes, which must be sorted into primary and secondary. The primary cause of disease is one's own karma done before; all other causes are its…

Names six causes of disease (vata, pitta, kapha, blood, sannipata and injury), five kinds of signs for diseases not caused by injury, and eight seats of disease: skin, vessels, bone,…

Rubbing the penis with rough, uneven leaves to enlarge it, masturbation and intercourse with a narrow vagina produce many eruptions on the penis, called shuka disease; a footnote says it…

Eye diseases arise from the doshas lodged in the eye through plunging into water when overheated, keeping a fixed posture, change of seasons, sweat or much walking, excess intercourse, loss…

Constant excessive use of pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and of alcohol aggravates pitta, which gives rise to fainting, burning, drying (shosha), blisters, delirium,…

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

Here adhmana is presented as a vata disease of the abdomen: the colon gurgles, there is severe pain and the belly swells like a bag full of air.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.

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.

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

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…

Upadamsha is described as a swelling arising on the penis, treated like the kinds of scrotal enlargement according to dosha; a footnote lists its causes and five kinds, and verse 5 gives…

Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…

The text treats yoni diseases by dosha; an editorial note gives their causes (wrong diet and conduct, vitiated menstrual blood, semen defects, fate) and twenty kinds, five each from vata,…

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

Vata occupying and blocking the vessels of one half of the body makes that half hard and without sensation; the disease is also called pakshavadha and ekanga roga. From vata alone it is…

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

Kamala is said to follow when, soon after fever, burning or pandu subside, the person takes much sour and other unwholesome food, aggravating pitta; it whitens (or yellows) the body with…

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…