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

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…

Rubbing the body with paste (udvartana, ubtan) is called always good in skin discolouration, kapha and fat disorders, itching, emaciation of the body, affliction by vata and raktapitta.

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…

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…

Rubbing the body with a paste of wheat and the like, friction and dusting with medicinal powders (the verse: foam rubbing, massage and the like) are said to make the body firm and the skin…