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Green gram (mudga) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Green gram cooked as a milk pudding in milk mixed with liquorice decoction, with plenty of ghee, eaten for seven days, is said to remove all voice disorders and make the voice beautiful…

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,…

Green gram soup is said to remove fever, to increase vata (the commentary's rendering of अनिलाढ्य), and to destroy raktapitta and kapha; prepared with fats such as ghee or oil it also calms…

Green gram soup is said to remove fever, to increase vata (as the commentary renders the verse), and to destroy raktapitta and kapha; prepared with fats such as ghee or oil it also calms…

Pigeon pea is said to be most wholesome for kapha and pitta while slightly provoking vata; green gram is similar, removes fever and suits every kind of diarrhoea; the soup (dāl) of these is…

The soup (sūpa) of these pulses, pigeon pea and green gram, is said to be especially wholesome; the commentary adds that their dāl is especially beneficial in fever and diarrhoea.

Green gram soup is said to suit those whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, those wasted by wounds, the very thirsty, those heated by the sun or…

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…

Mouth diseases arise from the doshas in seven sites: the two lips, teeth, tongue, gums, throat and palate.

In its survey of the Vedic period the introduction says the story of the sage Cyavana supports a formula (yoga) that restores youth.

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…

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

Having described the poisonous leeches, the author turns to the six non-poisonous ones. The kapila has its sides and belly red as if smeared with cinnabar ground in lac juice, a tawny mouth…

Gruel cooked in milk with ghee and sugar, green gram soup, rice pudding with ghee or rice with green gram soup, cooling vegetables, and scented water in measured amounts.

A light meal once a day of green gram soup with ghee and salt, khala, soups with pungent drugs, and astringent and bitter vegetables is prescribed for the patient with mouth disease.

The patient should drink gruel (yavagu) cooked with milk, soaked in ghee and mixed with sugar, and eat green gram soup, rice pudding (payasa) mixed with ghee, or rice with green gram soup.

The patient with pitta-type abhishyanda drinks gruel cooked with milk, soaked in ghee and mixed with sugar, and eats green gram soup, rice pudding mixed with ghee, or rice with green gram…

The patient, fit for bloodletting, is fed cool food and seated; an unbroken site is roughened with powdered earth and cow dung or a dry paste and washed with cold water. The leeches are…

A patient with a disease curable by bloodletting is examined, given cool food in the cool season and seated; if the site has no wound it is rubbed rough with powdered earth and cow dung or…

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…

Cool food and drink for pitta disorders: milk, ghee, sugarcane juice, pea soup, green gram with jaggery preparations, buffalo curd, matsyakshi greens and meghanada with ghee.