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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…

Parts of the body that a person can no longer see (the verse speaks of his own shadow) are matched in order with the time left: foot three years, shank two years, knee one year, thigh ten…

The text says that a person who sees the discs of the moon and the sun and the three parts of the earth in the five colours of a rainbow, or as if full of holes, lives only two years.

The publisher's note says the Kalyāṇakārakam was first published 70 years earlier, in 1940, by the Sakhārām Nemchand Granthamālā, Solapur, and that this rare and unobtainable work is now…

When vomiting is held back, the doshas that spoil the retained food produce kushtha. Holding back tears of grief or joy produces diseases of the head and eyes. A footnote gives the variant…

After conception the embryo becomes kalala in ten days, turbid in another ten and firm in another ten; in the following months it becomes bubble-like and then somewhat solid; in the fifth…

Aggravated vata in the ear moving against its course causes severe earache; the same vata reaching the sound-carrying channels makes the ear hear false sounds like drums, kettledrums and…

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

Footnotes give one prasṛti as 8 tolā and one āḍhaka as 256 tolā.

For the earth kalpa the text takes the earth that birds eat every day.

A footnote says vāta is aggravated in the rainy season by the nature of the season, so enema therapy is given then.

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

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.

Ardita is said to arise from excessive yawning and talking, chewing hard food, agitation, sleeping on a high hard pillow, kapha and cold; the senses are disturbed, half the face becomes…

The introduction says that doṣas accumulated in excess take the form of mala, and that substances useless for the body's work, which soil the body and cause distress, are also called mala;…

The editor reports the author's explanation of the word vaidya (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the characteristics of the soul (jīva) and all other…

A second kind of oleating nasya, pratimarsha (also called avamarsha, says a footnote), is used at nine times, listed in a footnote: on rising in the morning, on leaving the house, after…

Pratimarsha on rising clears the night's waste from nose and mouth and heavy sleepiness; on going out it wards off wind, sun, smoke and dust; after tooth-cleaning it firms the teeth, scents…

The introduction says the Yajurveda describes the mantra-accompanied offering of particular parts of sacrificial animals, and that its Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas, especially the Aitareya…

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…

Very sharp, fearsome instruments used in bloodletting are said to bring great comfort; quoting Sushruta (the chapter and verse numbers are garbled), the text gives the signs of blood…