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Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Chapter 17 treats heart disease by dosha type: emesis with long pepper and mustard water and ghee or trikatu remedies for the vata type, emesis and purgation for the pitta and kapha types,…

Chapter 15 counts ten kinds of head disease: from vata, pitta, kapha, blood and all doshas together, suryavarta, ardhavabhedaka, shankhaka, and the worm-caused and depletion types;…

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

Ash gourd (kuṣmāṇḍa, white gourd), which the commentary names for the verse's 'creeper fruits', is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

Bottle gourd (लौकी; verse tumbī) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

Cucumber (खीरा; verse trapuṣa) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Ridge gourd (तुरई; verse kośātakī) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Mango leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

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

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

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…

Gridhrasi is described as violent vata tormenting the tendons of the hands and feet so that the limbs feel broken, with unbearable pain at those sites.

Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…

The verse lists sour sauvīra (the commentary: sour kāñjī) and liquor and its products among the causes of pitta aggravation.