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Principle
Dry quality (ruksha)
रूक्ष गुण (रूखा) · रूक्ष
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
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.
Principle
Substances (dravya)
द्रव्य
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…
Principle
Types of land (desha)
देश (भूमि के प्रकार) · देश
The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.
Topic
Air-dominated land and its water
वायुगुण प्रधान भूमि और उसका जल · वाताधिक्य भूमि एवं वहाँ का जलस्वरूप
Land dominated by the air quality is hard, uneven and dry, brown or dove-grey, with mostly tasteless grasses, poor crops and hollow trees; its water is pungent (the commentary writes कडुवा)…
Topic
Colours of the aggravated doshas, and the rule of treatment
कुपित दोषों के वर्ण और चिकित्सा का नियम · प्रकुपित दोषों के वर्ण
When the doshas are aggravated the body changes colour: with vāta it becomes ash-like, pigeon-grey, very dark and dry; with pitta very blue, yellow, green, dark or red; with kapha glossy…
Principle
Ten qualities of poison
विष के दस गुण · विषदशगुण
Poison is said to have ten qualities: dry (rūkṣa), hot (uṣṇa), sharp (tīkṣṇa), quick (āśu), pervasive (vyāpaka or vyavāyī, spreading through the whole body before being digested),…
Topic
What the ten qualities do
दस गुणों के कार्य · दशगुणों के कार्य
Dryness provokes vāta, heat provokes pitta and blood, subtlety lets poison spread through the finest parts of the body, and sharpness breaks the body parts and vital points. Pervasiveness…