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Chapter 15 counts ten kinds of head disease: from vata, pitta, kapha, blood and all doshas together, suryavarta, ardhavabhedaka, shankhaka, and the worm-caused and depletion types;…

For vata in the head, a cap-shaped sleeve of leather or thick leather-like cloth, open at top and bottom, is fixed on the head, its join sealed with black gram paste, and filled with…

Worms in the head cause splitting pain with blood and pus from the nose; depletion of doshas and tissues in the head causes the kshayaja type. Worm-destroying nasal medication is advised…

Having described pratimarsha, the text turns to head-purging: medicinal action through the nose is well known as nasya, and head-purging nasya can also be given with dry drugs.

A powder of bitter ridge gourd, black pepper, drumstick, apamarga seeds and rock salt, ground in water, is used for purging the head (shirovirechana).

Pastes of the same drugs used for the nasya oil are applied for vata lodged in the head.

Head-purging nasya is used in the many kapha diseases above the collar bone (the commentary: throat, nose, eyes and so on), and can also be given with dry drugs. Four drops of the purging…

For ear disease, the head is saturated with bala oil, or a cotton pad soaked in the oil is kept on the head; nasal medication and pouring oil into the ear are also beneficial.

Head disease arising from depletion of the doshas and of tissues such as fat and blood in the head; treated with measures that build them up.

Thick, salty kapha accumulated in the vital spot of the head and heated flows out from the head; treated with pressed and purging nasal drops.

Head pain that rises from morning to midday as the sun climbs and wanes as the sun goes down.

A very painful, long swelling of the knee arising from vatarakta, shaped like a jackal's head, hence the name.

After judging the dominant dosha, head diseases are treated with venesection, head purgation, heating, binding, medicated mouthfuls (kavala) and plasters, each as suits the causing dosha.

In health, oil is put on the head. The verse says it satisfies the senses and softens the hair; the commentary says it calms the senses, softens the hair and keeps the head cool. Both say…

Opens the section on head diseases (verses 1-10): invocation, the kinds of head disease and their signs, the general line of treatment, a nasal oil for worm-caused head disease and a…

Vata lodged in the head is treated by oil massage of the head and an oil-soaked pad kept on it, nasya with a medicated oil, pastes of the same drugs, warm sudation with nut grass, bitter…

Head disease caused by many kinds of worms inside the head, with splitting pain and blood and pus flowing from the nose; treated with worm-destroying nasal medication.

In health, oil should be put on the head. It is said to satisfy (the commentary: calm) the senses, soften the hair, keep the head cool and destroy all skin diseases.

The insane patient is laid in a dark, foul-smelling well full of corpses, and the physician lets blood by puncturing all the forehead veins.

A leather sleeve open at both ends is fixed on the head, sealed with black gram paste, filled with vata-reducing oil and held for a thousand kshana.

Emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days and head purgation every three days.

Rubbing old ghee, or ghee, on the head is said to calm bleeding from the nose.