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Principle
Hot potency (ushna virya)
उष्ण वीर्य (गरम) · उष्णवीर्य
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Therapy
Purification therapy (shodhana)
शोधन चिकित्सा · शोधन
Great diseases are said to arise from the excessive or wrong use (atiyoga, mithyayoga) of purification by emesis and purgation; the text promises their treatment together with the method of…
Principle
Substances (dravya)
द्रव्य
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…
Principle
Virya (potency)
वीर्य (शक्ति) · द्रव्यवीर्य
The text names the qualities that count as potency (virya) as unctuous, sharp, slimy, dry, hot, cold, clear and soft.
Food
Water (jala)
जल (पानी) · जल
The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…
Topic
Qualities of purifying medicine
संशोधन औषध के गुण · संशोधन भेषज के गुण
Purifying medicine is very sharp, hot, mobile (sara) and vikasi (the verse also seems to name subtlety), and by these it cleanses upward or downward. The emetic carries the unripe doshas…