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Vata occupying and blocking the vessels of one half of the body makes that half hard and without sensation; the disease is also called pakshavadha and ekanga roga. From vata alone it is…

The hemiplegia patient is well purged and then given asthapana enemas and the whole treatment told for vata diseases; the facial palsy patient is treated with sudation and pressed nasal…

A hemiplegia patient whose body is swollen and numb, who has distension, whose body is bent and trembling, who is gripped by excessive vata, who feels no pain and whose limbs have dried up,…

A hemiplegia patient is to be well purged and then given asthapana enemas and the whole treatment told for vata diseases; a facial palsy patient is to be treated with sudation and pressed…

A swollen and numb body, distension, a bent and trembling body, excessive vata, absence of pain and wasted limbs.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

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…