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The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

A thin body, like a stout one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.

Irregular digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated vāta.

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…

Weak digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated kapha.

For the thin, water is commended, and milk is to be given after meals; with nasal therapy, linctus, gargles and similar measures his digestive fire should always be protected.

The text says the thin body is to be made plump with unctuous, nourishing medicines, food and drink, natural thinness to be nourished with effort, water commended and milk given after…

The physician should correct the digestive fire troubled in turn by vāta, pitta and kapha with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy, respectively.

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…