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The dung of grass-eating animals, together with their urine and milk, is said to be taken as medicine, while that of meat-eating animals is not.

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…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka, mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal weight of sea salt, sealed in an…

Eye-beneficial drugs are ground into a ball, wrapped in mango or similar leaves, coated with clay and burned in a fire of cow-dung cakes by the putapaka rule; the clay and leaves are…

Bhallataka stone powder is ground with cow's milk and given three putas (heatings) in a fire of cow-dung cakes. A person whose body has been purified beforehand by emesis, purgation and the…

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of seven drugs and cow-dung juice, licked for liver and spleen enlargement, distension, mahodara, cough, gulma, upward-moving vata and udavarta.

Alternatively, lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell (shukti), arimeda (glossed as foul-smelling khadira) with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees…

The patient, fit for bloodletting, is fed cool food and seated; an unbroken site is roughened with powdered earth and cow dung or a dry paste and washed with cold water. The leeches are…

A patient with a disease curable by bloodletting is examined, given cool food in the cool season and seated; if the site has no wound it is rubbed rough with powdered earth and cow dung 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,…

Tarpana is holding eye-beneficial juices or ghee in the eyes of the patient lying on his back; putapaka is juice squeezed from a leaf-wrapped, clay-coated ball of drugs roasted in a…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka (gokhuru in the commentary), mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal amount…

Lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell, arimeda with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees with their bark are powdered; the powder is dusted on the…

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.

Entries 13–27 of the क section, from कन्या (घीकुंवार, बड़ी इलायची, वाराहीकन्द and other senses) to कर्कारु (कोहडा). They include कपि and कपिचूत (आंबाडा), कपित्थ (कैथ), कपोतक (kinds of…

Bhallataka stone powder is ground with cow's milk and given three putas in a fire of cow-dung cakes. A person already purified by emesis, purgation and the like takes it mixed with milk,…

Thin sheets of sharp iron are smeared with a paste of the five salts and sour substances, heated in a closed crucible on a cow-dung fire and quenched in khadira and triphala liquid, sixteen…

An ash of sharp iron made by sixteen heatings with salt and sour pastes and quenching in khadira and triphala, taken with ghee and sugar. It is said to remove kushtha, spleen disease, piles…

Ghee cooked with six pala of decoction and six pala of paste of pippali, dry ginger, gajapippali, shati, sea salt, chitraka and yavakshara and one prastha of cow-dung juice is the shatpala…

To strengthen (brimhana) the mercury it is always made fire-resistant by tapana, vasana and kasana: rock salt, orpiment, Multani earth and grain husk are ground thick with juices, raisins…

To strengthen (brimhana) mercury the text says it should always be made fire-resistant (agnisaha) by tapana, vasana and kasana, in the order of the Jina doctrine, by which it becomes very…

Fire is said to be sharper than kshara: diseases burnt with it are destroyed from the root and do not recur, and diseases not curable by kshara, medicine or knife yield to it. It is not to…

Snacks and meals with ghee and oil, immersion in warm decoctions, affusion, and pleasantly warm sudation with slightly heated dry cow dung are described as beneficial for warding off vata.…