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A thin body, like a stout one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

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…

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

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

Rubbing the body with paste (udvartana, ubtan) is called always good in skin discolouration, kapha and fat disorders, itching, emaciation of the body, affliction by vata and raktapitta.

All mahodaras show burning, fainting, a full abdomen, weak digestion, retention of wind and faeces, swelling, emaciation and body pain.

Sour belching and a sour taste in the mouth, loss of taste, burning, abdominal disease, indigestion, emaciation, trembling of the abdomen and many other signs appear before piles develop;…

Rubbing the body with paste is called always good when there is skin discolouration, a kapha or fat disorder, itching, emaciation, affliction by vata, or raktapitta. Rubbing with a paste of…

Enemas must never be given to those suffering from indigestion, fear, grief, pandu, intoxication, fainting, loss of taste, giddiness, breathlessness, cough, kushtha, abdominal disease,…

Ghee for oleation must not be given in loss of appetite, new fever, heart disease, pregnancy, fainting, intoxication, giddiness, fatigue, emaciation, after alcohol, in abdominal disease,…

Betel is to be avoided by those with raktapitta, fever, consumption or extreme emaciation, after a purgative, with diarrhoea, hunger or thirst, insanity or painful urination, after drinking…