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Much itching of the body is among the signs of aggravated kapha.

Itching in the ear from accumulated kapha.

Verse 51 refers vicharchika, its variety vipadika, pama and kacchu back to the kushtha section.

Rock salt, white pepper (black pepper with its skin removed), manahshila and the tender shoots and flowers of jasmine are ground in sour fruit juice, made into a wick and dried; repeated…

A collyrium wick of rock salt, white pepper, manahshila and jasmine shoots and flowers ground in sour fruit juice; repeated use is said to remove itching of the eyes and all other kapha…

A vata eyelid disease with repeated twitching of the lids.

Kapha collecting in the ear causes itching (karnakandu); the same kapha dried there becomes karnagutha; that deposit turned liquid again covers the ear, called karnapratinada or pratinaha.

In kapha-type yoni diseases with much itching, a powder of sharp drugs, brihati fruits and rock salt is filled in daily, and the yoni is washed with warmed urines such as cow and goat urine.

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…

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.

Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

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.

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

The text describes doshas lodging in successive layers (patala) of the eye and impairing sight step by step; when timira reaches the fourth layer it is called linganasha.

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

The Kinnara graha is described as one of the cruel grahas that seize children, recognised by a fixed stare, a blood-like body odour, a crooked mouth, a twitching eyelid, refusal of the…

Rubbing the body with paste is called always good when there is skin discolouration, a kapha or fat disorder, itching, emaciation, affliction by vata, or raktapitta. Rubbing with a paste of…

The kapha type is heavy and steady (it does not come and go), with little pain, severe itching and hardness; the fat type is large, soft, shaped like a palm fruit, with intense itching.

A soft, heavy, round throat swelling from kapha and blood with itching, burning and little pain; incised and treated.

A swelling like the tip of the tongue arising beneath it from kapha and blood, with constant salivation and itching; treated like jihvalasaka, with head purgation and medicated mouthfuls.

An eyelid disease from kapha and vata: a large hard pimple ringed by small itching ones.