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Horse-gram soup (kulattha-yūṣa) is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

Horse gram cooked in the filtered decoction of mushkaka ash, with salt and plenty of trikatu, is drunk constantly by the indigestion patient; the text says it kindles the digestive fire.

Horse gram soup with sesame oil (the commentary says: or sesame oil), mixed with trikatu, asafoetida and vidanga, is said to be beneficial against worms.

As another diet once the ghee is digested, light and warm food is given as suitable with soups of horse gram, mung or pigeon pea and a suitable khala.

A decoction is made with mushkaka (morva) ash and filtered; horse gram cooked in it, with salt and trikatu added, is drunk constantly by the patient with indigestion and is said to kindle…

Ghee cooked with the liquids named in the verse (horse gram, kola or jujube, a sour liquid, milk and curd; the commentary reads decoctions of horse gram and jujube with milk and curd) is…

A sour horse-gram preparation (kanji) with black pepper powder is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

Upadamsha is described as a swelling arising on the penis, treated like the kinds of scrotal enlargement according to dosha; a footnote lists its causes and five kinds, and verse 5 gives…

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

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…

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

Named in this range only as a disorder that horse gram is said to remove.

A fine powder of haritaki, katuki, rock salt, vacha and trikatu, drunk by the bhagandara patient in a kanji of horse gram and buttermilk or with any liquid.

An enema of the decoction of jujube, barley and horse gram, with a paste of long pepper, licorice and rock salt and with old jaggery and sesame oil, called the siddha enema; the text says…

Of the kinds of vajra (vajra, vajraloha, vajrabandha fruit, vajrakapala and vajra stone), whichever can be had are collected, burnt by rule in the strong fire of a bellows and, when red…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

Pitta is said to be aggravated by excessive grief, anger, fear and joy, by severe fasting and excessive sexual activity, by too much pungent, sour, sharp (alkaline) and salty food, by…

Once the drunk ghee is digested, the person is given yavagu cooked with coriander and neem, or a yavagu prepared with drugs suited to the dosha, or light warm food with soups of horse gram,…

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…

A fine powder of haritaki, katuki, rock salt, vacha and trikatu, mixed in a kanji of horse gram and buttermilk, or with any liquid, is drunk by the bhagandara patient, who is said to become…

They are burnt red hot in a bellows fire, quenched in water of patala and arjuna wood ash, washed seven times with very hot horse-gram decoction, put into milk and powdered; the powder is…