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The introduction says the gross dhātus appear in increasing order as animal bodies become more complex: some creatures have only rasa and rakta, some rasa, rakta and māṁsa, and some rasa,…

Food becomes rasa, then blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and semen.

Food and drink become rasa, from which blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and semen arise in turn; the seven dhatus are said to form with the help of elements of hot and cold nature and of the…

Semen (śukra), like fat and brain matter, is said to measure one añjali in the body.

Dates (khajūrī) are named in the verse among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly; the commentary's list omits them.

Kanaka (dhatūrā) is said to hold poison in its fruit, leaves and flowers.

Every morning the teeth are cleaned with a faultless tooth-stick suited to the doshas, which the commentary explains as sticks of neem, babul, karanja, arjuna and the like that counter…

हिन्दी: धत्तूरा · मराठी: श्वेत धोत्रा, धोत्रा

हिन्दी: पालसा, दरुषा · मराठी: पारवा, फालसा, लोखंड, साराग्ल, निळा सुरमा, अश्वक्षुरा, एवनी वृक्ष

हिन्दी: धतूरा, खैर का वृक्ष, ढेरा वृक्ष, मौलसिरी का पेड़, मोम, मैनफल वृक्ष · मराठी: गेळ, मेण, खैर, श्वेत धोत्रा, कुन्द, बकूळ, मधुमक्षिका, अंकोल, दवणा, कावळाशल्य, कोशाम्र, कालिंग, सरल…

The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…

The introduction says that in the human body, whose dhātus are the most developed, the pratimūladhātus are present together with ojas-like essences (dhātusāra-teja), but the three dhātus…

The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

The introduction says vṛṣa-cikitsā, the eighth limb of Ayurveda, means vājīkaraṇa therapy.

The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

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.

Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…

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…

Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

The editor reports the author's definition of practical (vyāvahārika) health: balance in the body's seven dhātus, agni and the doṣas vāta, pitta and the rest, clarity of the senses, joy of…