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The wholesome diet described for wound patients is given in vidradhi too: well-cooked rice of old, good shali grain with ghee and dried vegetables, hot water to drink, and also suitable…

Gulma is a round lump between the heart and the bladder, of five kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three, and blood in women); it is treated with purgation, dosha-pacifying drugs, enemas, the…

Vāta is said to be aggravated by excessive exercise and sexual activity, long journeys on foot, riding, carrying loads, wrong times of sleep, immersion in water and blows of wind; by…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

Bitter, astringent, dried and dry vegetables are listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

The vidradhi patient gets the wholesome diet prescribed for wounds: well-cooked rice of old shali grain with ghee and dried vegetables, hot water to drink, and suitable peya, vilepi or…

A gulma patient should not eat the many kinds of tubers such as ratalu and pindalu, radish, meat, split pulses such as mung and masur, dried and dry vegetables, meals made with them, or…

With very pungent drugs, the patient fasts for three days at a time and then takes, once in the morning, a light, small meal of rice with ghee and dried, dry, warm vegetables.

A patient whose eyes are full of kapha is given very pungent drugs and, says the commentary, made to fast for three days at a time, then fed once in the morning a light, small meal of rice…