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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…

The text says that to relieve heart disease, enemas are also given with drugs suited to pacifying the respective doshas.

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.

An enema given properly according to the rules of the science brings many great and inconceivable benefits, while one given carelessly by an ignorant physician brings many harms.

No other measure calms vata diseases as well as a skilfully given enema. Properly given, it calms vata and brings comfort, increases bodily strength, life span and digestive fire, acts as…

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

Irregular digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated vāta.

Aggravated vata spread through the whole body is to be calmed by asthapana and anuvasana enemas given in due order.

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

For the person of medium body, emesis is to be given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn.

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…

The patient is told to lie comfortably pressing on his right hand so that the stool does not come out quickly; a footnote says an anuvasana that comes straight out is of no benefit and must…

In fever from excess oleation emesis and purgation are given, and in fever from excess drying enema therapy; in a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long…

Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…

For the medium body, emesis is to be given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn; this is how the noble ones preserve the health of the healthy. A footnote…

The text says that for the medium (healthy) body emesis is given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn, as the way the noble ones preserve the health of the…

For vata spread through the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and an enema is given…

Fever from excess oleation is treated with a drying regimen of warm peya, vilepi and pulse soups and with emesis and purgation; fever from excess drying is treated with oleation using…

The physician should correct the digestive fire troubled in turn by vāta, pitta and kapha with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy, respectively.

The text says the digestive fire troubled by vāta, pitta and kapha is to be corrected, in that order, with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy.

Very hard-to-cure vata, whether in one part or in the whole body, is said to be pacified by enema therapy alone. For vata in the head, a head basti (shirobasti) of vata-reducing oil is held…

When vata pervades the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and enema therapy (basti) is…

Balanced fire digests a proper meal properly; irregular fire (from vāta) sometimes digests it and sometimes not; sharp fire (from pitta) digests even an excessive meal; weak fire (from…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…