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Green gram soup is said to suit, and benefit, people whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, whose bodies are wasted by wounds, who are very thirsty,…

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

A complication named in the text for purgation and for enemas, in which pitta and kapha keep draining in small amounts with weakness and fatigue.

During her period a woman should, like an ascetic, wholly give up violence and the other four sins and keep silence and similar vows; for three days she avoids garlands, ornaments and…

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…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Purgation is said to sharpen the sight, strengthen the senses, increase intelligence, bodily strength and the digestive fire, prolong life and remove diseases from faults of stool and…

An enema complication with hard-to-cure stiffness of the limbs and signs of vata aggravation.

In a person full of vata, dry by nature or lying improperly, an enema of weak drugs causes hard-to-cure angagraha (stiffness of the limbs) with fatigue, yawning, tremor and other vata…

Saktu mixed with milk cream, or a dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery, is eaten daily; the text says even an old man could then go to seventy women without fatigue.

Saktu (sattu) mixed with milk cream (the commentary: malai) is eaten daily. Of this and the black gram alternative in the same verse the text says that even an old man could then go to…

As the alternative in verse 34, some dish of black gram flour rich in jaggery is eaten daily; the same claim is made, that even an old man could go to seventy women without fatigue.

An oil enema in small measure given to a patient who ate very little, even if beneficial and properly given, does not come out at once and causes languor, distaste in the mouth, heaviness…

In a person whose bowel has not been cleansed by purgation and niruha, even a proper oil enema mixes with stool and does not come out, causing heaviness and colic in the colon, fatigue of…

The right amount of ghee is the amount that digests well by midday without causing mada, fatigue, languor, burning, fainting or loss of appetite; the commentary notes this measure is held…

When the signs of proper purgation appear (fatigue, languor, lightness, contentment, thirst, leanness and a kindled digestive fire), the patient is given yavagu to drink that same day. It…

A vata disease in which kapha coats the channels of vata, so the voice sinks with breathlessness and fatigue, the throat dries and food seems to stick.

Smoke is not to be given to those suffering from fainting, intoxication, giddiness, burning, thirst, heat, raktapitta, fatigue, severe poisoning, grief or fear; to those with pandu,…

Those with breathlessness, cough, wasting, fever or fatigue from travel, the emaciated, the dry, the wounded, the very old, children, those with consumption, those just purified by emesis…

A second kind of oleating nasya, pratimarsha (also called avamarsha, says a footnote), is used at nine times, listed in a footnote: on rising in the morning, on leaving the house, after…

Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting,…

An enema of very sharp, sour and salty drugs causes the great disease parisrava, with marked weakness and bodily fatigue and a discharge of pitta.

A small or mild purgative given to a person with a dry, hard bowel and many doshas cannot expel them and only stirs them up. The text says this brings weakness, loss of taste, fatigue and…