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Svarabheda is damage to the voice from loud recitation, grief, poison, a blow to the throat or loud speaking. It has six kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, tridoshic, fat, blood); the tridoshic and…

In vata hoarseness the voice seems broken and harsh like a donkey's; in pitta hoarseness the throat dries and burns with much thirst; in kapha hoarseness the throat is blocked by phlegm and…

In vata hoarseness ghee is drunk daily after meals; in pitta hoarseness milk with ghee and jaggery; in kapha hoarseness alkaline water mixed with the three pungents and the three fruits.

When all the above features appear together it is tridoshic hoarseness, which is incurable. In hoarseness from blood the face darkens and the voice comes out with much heat; the sages call…

Fat-born hoarseness is treated with the treatment for kapha hoarseness. The tridoshic and blood kinds are declared incurable, and the physician should try treatment only after careful…

Loud recitation, excessive grief, taking poison, a blow to the throat, loud talking and speech-making damage the voice. It arises from vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas, fat and blood,…

When vitiated fat reaches the throat and palate, the person speaks with great difficulty, slowly and thickly, and cannot pronounce letters clearly; the fat disorder should be removed with…

The patient eats black sesame with bhringaraja leaves, or roasted chickpeas with black pepper, and then drinks warm milk mixed with cow ghee and sugar.

Opens the section on svarabheda (loss or change of voice): causes, six kinds, curability and treatment.

All patients with voice disorders are examined well and treated by dosha with oleation and other procedures, suitable medicines, or the medicines that calm breathing disorder and cough.

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…

Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…

Emesis is judged proper when first the medicine, then kapha and then pitta are expelled and the doshas and the disease subside.

In kapha hoarseness alkaline water mixed with the three pungents and the three fruits should be drunk.

The Anuputana graha, of the yaksha class, is described as a graha of children with refusal of the breast, high fever, diarrhoea, cough, vomiting, hiccup, a fatty or sour smell, loss of…

Properly performed emesis is said to remove delirious talk, heaviness of the body, hoarseness, excessive sleep, bad taste in the mouth, weak digestion, foul breath, burning, heart disease,…

Smoke is said to clear the senses, gladden the mind and firm the teeth and hair, and to remove breathlessness, cough, sneezing, vomiting, hoarseness, sleep disorder, kacha, delirium and…

For hoarseness, black sesame is eaten with bhringaraja leaves, followed by warm milk mixed with cow ghee and sugar.

Even a proper oil enema given to a patient who has eaten a full meal is overpowered by the food and does not come out, causing heart pain, breathlessness, cough, hoarseness, loss of taste,…

Thin clear nasal discharge, a covered and blocked nose, dryness of throat, palate and lips, needling pain in the temples, loss of sleep, much sneezing and hoarseness mark vata coryza.

People with vata hoarseness should drink ghee every day after meals.

In pitta hoarseness milk mixed with ghee and jaggery should be drunk.

Oleating nasya is said to strengthen the throat, blood, head, shoulders and chest and to sharpen the sight; it is used in head disorders from vata, loose teeth, falling of hair and beard,…

The throat, ears and forehead are first sweated; the gargle liquid is then held in the mouth, filling it only halfway, and kept still until the medicine is enveloped in kapha; when the eyes…