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Kumbhika is listed among the nineteen curable eye diseases born of all three doshas.

A kapha eyelid disease with a painless pimple that swells, bursts and swells again.

Fruits of the pāṭalī tree (pāḍal) are listed among fruit vegetables described as dry, sweet and cold, removing pitta and kapha, heavy to digest, quickly increasing vata and countering…

A painless pimple in the eyelid shaped like the seed of the kumbhika fruit, which swells, bursts discharging pus and swells again, is the kapha disease called kumbhika. A footnote says…

The bitter bottle gourd vine (verse kaṭukikā) is named among the five vines, said to remove pitta and kapha, destroy worms, suit kuṣṭha, relieve cough, breathlessness, poisoning and fever,…

Nineteen tridoshic eye diseases are curable: vartmavabandha, aklinna vartma, sirajapidaka, snayvarma, adhimamsarma, prastaryarma, akshipaka with and without swelling, shyava, bahala,…

The ancient sages declare nine diseases curable by scraping (lekhana): klishta vartma, baddha vartma (vartmavabandha), bahala vartma, kardama vartma, shyava vartma, sharkara vartma,…