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Field beans (niṣpāva, glossed by the commentary as a kind of sem) are listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

Vāta is said to be aggravated by excessive exercise and sexual activity, long journeys on foot, riding, carrying loads, wrong times of sleep, immersion in water and blows of wind; by…

A kushtha patient should not take milk, curd, sugar, jaggery and other sugarcane products, field beans, black gram, sesame, oil, horse gram, flour preparations, heavy foods, (sour) fruits,…