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Indralupta is described as hair falling and whitening when pitta with vata enters the hair follicles, with no regrowth once kapha and blood block them.

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

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…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

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,…

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

Powder of the mango-kernel and iron powder are taken in equal parts, and triphala powder and nilanjana powder (glossed as blue vitriol or antimony) each equal to these two. The four powders…

Nili juice, bhringaraja juice and triphala decoction, one prastha (64 tola) each, and one prastha of sesame oil are mixed and kept. Pieces of the heartwood of vijayasara (asana, the hard…

Haritaki fried in oil and kamsa powder are taken in equal parts, iron powder (roasted, says the verse) equal to both, and as much nilanjana (glossed as blue vitriol), all mixed together. A…

Marks of a long life are listed: soft, fleshy, glossy hands and feet like aśoka shoots or lotuses with many auspicious lines; long, fleshy ears; eyes like blue lotuses; teeth like pearls or…

Gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya (the commentary: bhuri charila, a kind of fragrant substance), their flowers; guduchi, hata (shaivala), mahanila, vanamallika, nili…

Wrinkling of the skin (valī) and grey hair (palita), which the vidanga or licorice powder of verse 43 is said to destroy; the commentary glosses valī as wrinkling of the skin, and verse 45…