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Curd is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

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.

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

Ghee cooked with the liquids named in the verse (horse gram, kola or jujube, a sour liquid, milk and curd; the commentary reads decoctions of horse gram and jujube with milk and curd) is…

Boiled milk set with sugar, punarnava root powder, black pepper, asafoetida and a little buttermilk becomes a fragrant curd with which the consumptive eats his meal the next day.

Oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu, sarala and shatahva, together with kanji, sour curd and buttermilk, is massaged on a child seized by the Rakshasa…

A paste of the drugs of the previous verse (patala and the others) is given to the piles patient to drink with curd whey and sour buttermilk, or with alkali water.

Wine and water show black streaks, curd turns white with a slight yellow tinge, and milk and buttermilk show red streaks.

Curd is described as hot and sour, destroying vata, removing kapha, producing pitta, countering poison, kindling digestion, making the body unctuous, causing a burning sensation (vidāhī),…

Poison in wine or water shows as black streaks; poisoned curd turns white with a slight yellow tinge; poisoned milk and buttermilk show red streaks.

Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd…

The opposing claim that some substances become like poison when combined is called unproven, contradictory and inconclusive: for some people, those who eat everything, habitually eat before…

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

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

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

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 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…

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…

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.