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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 five kinds are vataja, pittaja, kaphaja, kshataja and kshayaja. Kshataja cough follows injury to the chest from exertion such as study and brings thick bloody discharge; kshayaja cough…

A wick made in the same way with cardamom, clove, nagakesara and tamala leaf gives the prayogika smoke; wicks made with emetic drugs, with the many head-purging drugs and with known…

Vataja, pittaja, kaphaja, kshataja and kshayaja; kshayaja cough is tridoshic and hard to treat.

Equal parts of amalaki, gokshura, dates, priyala, liquorice, blue lotus, bharangi and long pepper are powdered and taken with ghee and sugar on a milk diet; this is said to destroy cough…

Ghee cooked with kantakari juice, oil cooked with the juices of kasamarda, vasa and bhringaraja, or haritaki taken with salt are each said to destroy cough born of vata.

Rock salt, the three pungents, asafoetida and vidanga are powdered and mixed with ghee and sesame oil, and smoked; this oily smoke is said to remove vata cough quickly.

In much-increased vata cough, emesis, purgation with ghee and oil enema are said to calm it quickly.

Emesis, purgation, head purgation, strong medicated smoke, holding liquids in the mouth and licking pungent linctuses are called beneficial in kapha cough.

Long pepper, ghee and jaggery drunk with buffalo milk, or liquorice ground in sugarcane juice, are said to destroy pitta cough quickly. A footnote gives a variant reading of the verse.

Opens the section on kasa (cough): its features, five kinds and treatment for each kind.

Equal parts of amalaki, gokshura, dates, priyala, liquorice, blue lotus, bharangi and long pepper are powdered; one aksha (the commentary says one tola) is taken with ghee and sugar while…

A powder of abhaya (rendered khas in the commentary), musta and dry ginger eaten with jaggery removes kapha cough. Emesis, purgation, head purgation, strong smoking, holding gargles and…

Ghee cooked in a decoction of the three lotuses, liquorice and sariva, licked repeatedly with sugar, is said to calm pitta cough.

For much-increased vata cough: emesis, purgation with ghee and oil enema, or the well-known Shatpala ghee. A medicated smoke of rock salt, the three pungents, asafoetida and vidanga mixed…

Vitiated prana vayu joined with udana vayu comes out of the mouth with a sound like a cracked bronze vessel; this is kasa, and it is of five kinds.

The patient may drink slightly warm ghee or oil mixed with rock salt and black pepper, a sour gruel made with three peppers, a milk preparation (kheer) or milk itself.

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…

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.

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

The bitter gourd vine, called the best (atyantottama) in the verse, is named among the five vines said to remove pitta and kapha, destroy worms, suit kuṣṭha, relieve cough, breathlessness,…

If too much blood is let from a vein, vata disorders, wasting, breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anaemia, insanity and heat in the head are said to arise, and death may follow soon.