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

Stool that sinks in water and smells foul marks ama diarrhoea; the opposite signs mark pakva diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea showing the signs of all three doshas, with broken, clear stool with or without particles, is sannipata diarrhoea. Stool that sinks in water and smells foul marks ama (undigested)…

For diarrhoea in the pakva stage; it is drunk with whey.

A powder of mango seed kernel, lodhra, liquorice, sesame, padmaka, dhataki flowers, silk-cotton gum, bael pulp, priyangu, kutaja bark, ativisha and manjishtha, drunk with whey, is said to…

The ama and pakva states of diarrhoea are to be judged well and treated accordingly (digestion in the ama state, binding in the pakva state, says the commentary). When much ama is present,…

When diarrhoea carries much ama, emesis is induced by having the patient drink warm water mixed with a paste of madanaphala, rock salt and long pepper.

Green gram soup is said to suit, and benefit, people whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, whose bodies are wasted by wounds, who are very thirsty,…

The stool is white, thick and very cold and comes slowly and in large amount; the patient feels chilled and the body heavy and cold.

In kapha diarrhoea, from excess kapha, the stool is white, thick and very cold and is passed slowly and in large amount; the patient suffers greatly from cold and the body feels heavy and…

Opens the section on diarrhoea (atisara): its cause and its kinds by dosha, followed on the next pages by further kinds and treatment.

Diarrhoea born of excessive grief that passes very bloody, very hot stool with bloating and colic, joined by complications such as thirst, swelling, fever, breathlessness and cough, with…

In pitta diarrhoea the stool is yellow or green, very hot, mixed with blood, clear and thin and passes quickly, with burning (in the verse), and the patient has fainting, thirst, fever,…

In vata diarrhoea, from aggravated apana vata, the stool is dry and frothy (very thick, says the commentary; with water and froth, says the verse) and passes again and again in small…

Very sour buttermilk mixed with black pepper, rock salt, dry ginger and asafoetida is drunk in the ama stage of vata diarrhoea.

Sour gruel (kanji) cooked with black pepper, ajamoda, rock salt and dry ginger is drunk in the ama stage of vata diarrhoea.

In the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea, a paste of tree turmeric, turmeric, the three pungents, musta and chitraka, or a paste of patha, ajamoda, black pepper, amalaki and haritaki, is drunk…

In the ama stage of pitta diarrhoea, goat's milk cooked with a liquorice decoction, or a decoction of jambu, musta, mango, kutaja and ativisha, or a paste of sesame and hribera taken with…

In the ama stage of vata diarrhoea, very sour buttermilk with black pepper, rock salt, dry ginger and asafoetida is drunk (in the morning, says the verse), or a sour gruel (kanji) cooked…

Warm water mixed with a paste of madanaphala, rock salt and long pepper is drunk to induce vomiting; nothing is eaten that day, and the next day a little warm vilepi or yusha cooked with…

The very young, the very old, the emaciated, the weak and the consumptive, and those whose stool looks like ghee, spleen, fat, liver, oil, water, milk, curd or buttermilk.

Buttermilk with rock salt and dry ginger; mung soup with cumin tempered with ghee, salt and black pepper; and milk prepared with ajamoda and rock salt.

Buttermilk with rock salt and dry ginger, or mung soup with cumin tempered with ghee, salt and black pepper, or milk prepared with ajamoda and rock salt, is said to be wholesome food in…

Once intoxication, burning and the doshas have settled after emesis, the tired patient takes no food or drink that day; the next day a small amount of warm vilepi or yusha cooked with…