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The state of a person oleated too much; the text lists burning at the anus, excessive stools, anorexia, kapha from the mouth, dysentery, burning of the limbs and fainting, and treats it…

Burning at the anus, excessive stools, anorexia, kapha from the mouth, dysentery, burning of the limbs and fainting; it is treated with dry ginger in hot water and rice with mung soup, or a…

Signs of an over-oleated person: burning at the anus, excessive passing of stool (diarrhoea), anorexia, kapha coming from the mouth, dysentery (pravahika), burning of the limbs and fainting.

The over-oleated patient drinks dry ginger mixed in hot water and is promptly fed rice with mung soup; or he is given a gruel (yavagu) with ajamoda, chitraka and rock salt.

Having described the treatment of disorders from excessive oleation, the author turns to sweating and the disorders from its improper use. Sweating is almost always most beneficial for the…

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.

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.

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

Svarabheda is damage to the voice from loud recitation, grief, poison, a blow to the throat or loud speaking. It has six kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, tridoshic, fat, blood); the tridoshic and…

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

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…

Signs of proper oleation: stools that definitely carry oil, aversion to drinking ghee and to food, and languor of the limbs. The author then announces the signs of excessive oleation.

In fever arising from excessive oleation a drying regimen of warm peya, vilepi and pulse soups is used; in fevers arising from excessive drying, oleation with suitable medicines is given.

Defects of the menstrual blood (artava, rajas), which the text classifies together with those of semen by dosha, blood and excessive intercourse, and treats with purification up to the…

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,…