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The introduction says honey, like wine and meat, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing countless living beings and its renunciation is…

No formula in the work uses wine, meat or honey, because they arise from violence; and its last section, which Ugrāditya is said to have delivered at the court of Nṛpatuṅga Vallabha, sets…

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

The opposing claim that some substances become like poison when combined is called unproven, contradictory and inconclusive: for some people, those who eat everything, habitually eat before…

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

Graha affliction is described as seizure by spirit beings (vyantaras and grahas), who the text says trouble people from enmity, for play or wishing to kill, and enter those who neglect…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

Semen (śukra), like fat and brain matter, is said to measure one añjali in the body.

The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

The introduction says vṛṣa-cikitsā, the eighth limb of Ayurveda, means vājīkaraṇa therapy.

Black shilajatu, called usha, is mixed with borax (tankana kshara), gunja, ghee, honey and jaggery, ground, placed in the fire and blown; the text says gold comes out of it within a short…

Angry great grahas are said to enter people who do not daily worship the five supreme gurus with flowers, unbroken rice and the other substances, who sin, desire others' wealth and wives,…

A hard nodule from kapha and vata vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and ligaments, which discharges honey-, fat- or ghee-like matter when it bursts, then hardens into gravel-like nodules…

Prameha patients whose turbid urine flows like fat, ghee or honey or like the rut fluid of an elephant, who have the complications described, boils on the anus, shoulders, heart region,…

A black kind of shilajatu called usha is described as liquid and shining like lac, plainly showing five colours, used in mercury work and able to make the six metals liquid. Mixed with…

A Sanskrit prose chapter, printed here without a Hindi commentary, that argues from the Jain doctrine of syadvada that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect. It rejects…

Aggravated kapha and vata, vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and all the ligaments, form a very hard large nodule that, when it ripens and bursts, discharges matter like honey, fat or…

Footnotes list the eight substances of worship (water, sandal, unbroken rice, flowers, food offering, lamp, incense and fruit) and the five paramesthis (arhat, siddha, acharya, upadhyaya…

A Hindi free translation of the Sanskrit hitahita discourse. It argues from syadvada that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect and that substance, taste, potency and…

As a यवागू made of barley flour, as liquor and कांजी, and as the honeybee.

The editor lists medical works written in Kannada, from Kīrtivarma's Govaidya to Sāḷva's Rasaratnākara and Vaidyasāṅgatya, and says Somanātha's Kannada translation of Pūjyapāda's…