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Powder of small cardamom and asafoetida with ghee and jaggery, drunk with milk, is said to destroy various kinds of urinary obstruction and semen-related urinary diseases.

Cardamom is listed among vegetables described as hot and sharp, especially removing kapha and vata, kindling digestion and always provoking blood disorders.

A decoction of cardamom, ajamoda, black pepper, amla and haritaki is drunk in fevers with much kapha.

Powders of cardamom, clove, nut grass, sandalwood, nagakesara, puffed rice, kana (cumin according to the commentary) and amla, drunk with jaggery water, are given after purification by…

Six aromatic and pungent drugs in rising parts from one to six, powdered with an equal weight of sugar, said to destroy kapha and many diseases including raktapitta, pandu, consumption,…

In those purified by emesis and purgation, drying and pitta are then calmed with pacifying preparations: powders of cardamom, clove, nut grass, sandalwood, nagakesara, puffed rice, kana…

Cardamom, cinnamon, nagakesara, long pepper, black pepper and dry ginger are taken in rising parts from one to six, powdered and mixed with sugar equal to all of them. The powder is called…

The editor relates that when Dośī fell ill before the last Dīpāvalī, Vaidya Pañcānana Pt. Gangādhar Guṇe Śāstrī came to treat him, and Dośī asked to be cured quickly because at Dīpāvalī, at…

The editor says publication was delayed because almost all the available copies were faulty; because the press copy was revised first by the noted Mumbai physician Pt. Anantarājendra…

Each disease slides one class worse: easy becomes hard, hard becomes manageable, manageable becomes untreatable, and the untreatable kills at once.

In the Jain canon the Prāṇāvāya is one of the fourteen Pūrvas of the twelfth aṅga, the scripture that sets out the eight-limbed Ayurveda; Ugrāditya says he composed the Kalyāṇakāraka in…

Banana (verse moca) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

The bitter gourd vine, called the best (atyantottama) in the verse, is named among the five vines said to remove pitta and kapha, destroy worms, suit kuṣṭha, relieve cough, breathlessness,…

Coconut is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

Vyanga is described as a black patch on the face from blood, pitta, vata and emotional and heat causes; nilika, large black patches on the body or face, is described next and treated with…

Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated…

The body is said to have 300 bones, 300 joints, 900 sinews (snāyu), 700 veins (sirā) and 500 muscles (peśī). An editor's footnote objects that there cannot be as many joints as bones, since…

There are thirty-two teeth and no more, and twenty nails; fat (medas), semen (śukra) and brain matter (mastuluṅga) each measure one añjali. A footnote says these and the following measures…

Twenty vessels (dhamanī) run from the navel, ten upward and ten downward, and four run crosswise, making twenty-four; there are sixteen kaṇḍarās (thick tendons) and six kūrcas. A footnote…

The ear patient drinks lukewarm ghee mixed with milk; the head is saturated with bala oil (or an oil-soaked cotton pad is kept on it), and nasal medication and oil poured into the ear are…

A paste of pippalimula, asafoetida, the three pungents, kunati (coriander, per the commentary), kamrakh, bharangi and turmeric is spread on a thin cloth, wrapped round a castor stalk, lit…

The anorexic patient's mouth is washed with a decoction of the urine group, turmeric, the three fruits and sour, alkaline, bitter, pungent, hot and astringent drugs; tooth-sticks of sour…