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Chapter 17 treats heart disease by dosha type: emesis with long pepper and mustard water and ghee or trikatu remedies for the vata type, emesis and purgation for the pitta and kapha types,…

Named in this range, with consumption, as a condition whose wasted sufferers fresh butter is said to suit.

Water chestnut (siṅghāḍā; verse śṛṅgāṭaka) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

Granthi are nodules arising from vitiated blood, the doshas, flesh, fat and vessels, treated by dosha and tissue with drugs, pastes and poultices; siraja granthi is incurable when immobile…

One who sleeps enough at night becomes happy, and one who wants happiness should certainly sleep at night; sleep is the cause of health for all beings, and broken sleep provokes the doshas,…

The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).

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…

Fresh butter (navanīta, loṇī) is described as cold, sour and also sweet, very aphrodisiac, kapha-producing, and removing pitta and vata disorders.

Kasa is described as vitiated prana vayu joined with udana leaving the mouth with a cracked-bronze sound. It has five kinds; the kshayaja kind is tridoshic and hard to treat.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

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…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…

Emesis is judged proper when first the medicine, then kapha and then pitta are expelled and the doshas and the disease subside.

A minor disease: boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, with fever.

Kapha resides in the stomach, chest, head, throat and all the joints and, aided by mobile vāta, carries out its work in the whole body. The commentary names the five kaphas by site (kledaka…

Vāyu, which moves through the whole body, resides especially in the buttocks, waist, groin and private parts; by its nature it carries the doshas and tissues to their places, and when…

A minor disease: nodules like a snake's anthill on the palms and soles, chest, throat, joints and above the collarbone, from much pitta with kapha.

Apastambha, two marmas on the two vata-carrying channels on either side of the chest; a wound there fills the abdomen with vata and causes death with cough and dyspnoea.

The ripe swelling, once opened and cleansed, is bandaged with three degrees of tightness according to the site: loose (shithila) at the joints and eyes; medium (sama) at the face, hands and…

If a patient dreams, frightened, that he climbs a very thorny tree, enters a fearful cave or falls face down from a mountain, or that tall bamboos or palms grow from his head, throat or…

Lists dreams said to foretell a patient's death: climbing a thorny tree, entering a fearful cave, falling headlong from a peak, bamboo or palms growing from the head, throat or chest,…