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

Bala graha is described as the seizure of children by grahas, each with its own signs and its own baths, oils, ghee, fumigations, amulets and offerings.

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.

Murchha (fainting) is described as the doshas covering the channels of consciousness so that the patient sees darkness and falls; it is of six kinds (blood, poison, vata, pitta, kapha,…

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 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…

A footnote defines nasya as medicine taken in through the nose.

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.

The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

Too small a dose does nothing, so the proper dose should be given; to calm the doshas one gives small amounts and settles the dose over three days, and the commentary adds that when the…

In the first and second months the pregnant woman is fed daily with rice together with sweet and cooling articles (the commentary: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and the like) and butter;…

An alkali made from the ash of the black mushkaka tree boiled in water, strained and thickened, with burnt conch navel, lime, putikaranja and bhallataka added; it is to be drunk in proper…

A black mushkaka tree is uprooted, dried and burnt to ash; one drona of the ash is boiled with six adhaka of water in a large clean vessel until the liquid is clear, red and sharp,…

Emesis is given in the moderate season (the commentary: the early rains, autumn and spring, without great cold or heat), on the morning after the evening meal, by giving emetic drugs as…

When the whole dose cannot be drunk because of ama, the medicine's bad taste, its repulsive look and the like, the patient is first treated with measures that destroy ama and then given…