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The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…

For people in youth and the later stages too, the physician should consider, according to the texts, whether the digestive fire is balanced, irregular or weak, and treat accordingly.

For those whose digestive fire has become weak through oleation and the other procedures, the text gives in succession hot water, water boiled and then cooled, yavagu, vilepi, yusha, an…

The text says the wise physician should always protect balanced digestive fire through food suited to the season and through enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods…

Disordered digestive fire is of three kinds caused by the doshas: irregular (viṣama) from vāta, sharp (tīkṣṇa) from pitta and weak (manda) from kapha. Footnotes define them: irregular fire…

The text says the digestive fire troubled by vāta, pitta and kapha is to be corrected, in that order, with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy.

Balanced fire digests a proper meal properly; irregular fire (from vāta) sometimes digests it and sometimes not; sharp fire (from pitta) digests even an excessive meal; weak fire (from…

The eight great procedures are said to weaken the abdominal fire, which should be built up gradually with fire-increasing water and foods, as one nurses a tiny spark into a fire with fine…

The wise physician should always protect balanced fire with food suited to the season and with enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods (trikāla). A footnote defines…

For those whose fire has been weakened by these procedures, hot water, boiled-and-cooled water, yavagu, vilepi, yusha, khala unseasoned and seasoned, then food with a little ghee and with…

Purgation is said to sharpen the sight, strengthen the senses, increase intelligence, bodily strength and the digestive fire, prolong life and remove diseases from faults of stool and…

Ajirna is food that is not digested, in three kinds (ama, vidagdha, vishtabdha); constant eating of many foods leads to it and to alasaka, vilambika and vishuchika. It is treated with…

Irregular digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated vāta.

The verse says that a medicine given in a deficient or excessive measure is marked by faults beginning with failure.

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…

Arochaka is an unmatched aversion to food caused by aggravated doshas, emotions such as grief, fear and anger, and impaired digestive fire.

Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.

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…

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…

Arguing that plants have the power to remove even the most terrible diseases, the editor asks whether Samantabhadrācārya's bhasmaka disease was not removed by Ayurvedic medicine.

Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.

Weak digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated kapha.

Here adhmana is presented as a vata disease of the abdomen: the colon gurgles, there is severe pain and the belly swells like a bag full of air.