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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.

Consumption is pictured as a conquering king surrounded by many severe diseases as vassal princes, who has overthrown the banners of other diseases; before its strength the enemy king,…

A powder of the three pungents, nut grass, chavya and vidanga, mixed with ghee and jaggery, is licked on rising in the morning; or raisins and long pepper are taken with ghee and jaggery…

Because a dosha may predominate a little or a lot, consumption is also spoken of as vata, pitta or kapha type; but since the features of all doshas occur together and the course of…

Kshaya because it wastes the tissues such as rasa, shosha because its heat dries them daily, and rajayakshma because it destroys even kings.

Suppressing stool and urine, excessive sexual intercourse, injury, eating food lacking nourishing tastes such as sweet, and kapha blocking the vessels that carry rasa are named as causes;…

Boiled milk is mixed with sugar, punarnava root powder, black pepper, asafoetida and a little buttermilk and set aside; next day the consumptive eats his meal with this fragrant curd.

Sweet rice, barley and wheat foods with ghee, jaggery, abundant milk, mung soup, fruits and nourishing vegetables are given to the consumptive.

Eleven features are listed: from vata, loss or change of voice, sunken flanks and contraction of the shoulders; from pitta, fever, burning, bleeding and diarrhoea; from kapha, loss of…

The consumptive may drink ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa (called vrisha or vasa ghee), eat cakes (pua) of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice flour, and eat…

A patient who keeps wasting though he eats a great deal, with swelling of the feet, abdomen and genitals and with diarrhoea, is said to go quickly to the next world, his mind set, in the…

Food and drink that digest quickly, kindle digestion, give relish and are aphrodisiac and nourishing, served with varied tastes and agreeable vegetables, are to be given constantly to the…

It is called kshaya because it wastes the tissues such as rasa and rakta, shosha because its fever dries them day by day, and rajayakshma because it destroys even kings; the commentary…

The consumptive patient is made unctuous with ghee prepared with nourishing drugs, then given mild emesis, mild purgation and, when the head is heavy, mild head purgation.

Prodromes listed: much thick phlegm, breathlessness, weakness of all limbs, vomiting, dry throat, weak digestion, intoxication, whiteness of the eyes, excessive sleep and rhinitis. Dreams…

The author promises to describe the severe wasting disease (vishama shosha, kshaya), the seat of bodily diseases since breathlessness, cough and many others arise with it, together with its…

Heading of the section on rajayakshma, the wasting disease, which runs to verse 28 with its names, causes, prodromes, features, fatal signs, treatment, recipes and diet.

The patient is first made unctuous with ghee cooked with the nourishing (brimhana) drugs described earlier, and is then cleansed with mild emesis, mild purgation and, if the head is heavy,…

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.

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

Black gram (māṣa) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

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

The introduction says that before the doṣas lodge in a site, accumulation and the following stages take place and the definite form of the disease approaches; at this time the prodromal…

Chewing betel is said to increase happiness, good fortune, fragrance, contentment, lustre, cheerfulness and pleasant desire; it keeps the face bright, the mind content and the mouth moist,…