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Murchha (fainting) is described as the doshas covering the channels of consciousness so that the patient sees darkness and falls; it is of six kinds (blood, poison, vata, pitta, kapha,…

In every kind of fainting, cold things are used in bathing, pastes, food, clothing, drinks and breeze, and foods such as licorice, dhataki flowers, grapes, milk, ghee, chironji, sugarcane…

Fainting, insanity and epilepsy arise from the doshas, which (aggravated by inner and outer causes) cover the faculties; they are treated with drugs suited to the strength of the doshas,…

In all kinds of fainting, cold things are used in bathing, pastes, food, clothing, drinks and breeze (cold baths, cooling pastes, fanning), and licorice, dhataki flowers, grapes, milk,…

When the doshas pervade the channels that carry consciousness, darkness seems to come before the eyes and the patient falls to the ground, the senses being covered so that forms are not…

Apasmara is named for the loss of memory with deadly fear and fainting; it arises from the three doshas with vata predominant, shows falling, teeth gnashing, phlegm vomiting, upturned eyes…

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.

Vata occupying and blocking the vessels of one half of the body makes that half hard and without sensation; the disease is also called pakshavadha and ekanga roga. From vata alone it is…

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

Pitta is said to be aggravated by pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and alcohol, and to cause fainting, burning, drying, blisters, delirium and thirst; spread through the…

Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…

Vishuchika, glossed as cholera (haija) by the commentary, follows indigestion and shows vomiting, thirst, giddiness, colic, fainting, diarrhoea, trembling, yawning, burning, discolouration…

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…

The text names vibandha as a complication of emesis and purgation: if a person takes very cold drinks, wind and the like while the cleansing is still going on, the doshas in the channels…

Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

The verse says that a medicine given in a deficient or excessive measure is marked by faults beginning with failure.

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…

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,…

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…