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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…

Oil prepared with kushtha and sal resin is applied to a child seized by the Revati graha.

After purification, a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white punarnava, the three pungents, brihati, nirgundi and arka is drunk with the alkali water of shirisha, musta, rava, apamarga…

Sesame oil prepared with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, realgar and kanji is massaged on the body of a child seized by the Anuputana graha.

Sesame oil cooked with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, vacha and similar drugs is applied to a child seized by the Putana graha.

Kushtha, chitraka, snuhi and black salt are pounded and ground with cow urine and applied as a paste on piles.

Shushira of the gums is rubbed with kushtha, antimony (surma), lodhra and musta.

In kapha-type abhishyanda the patient drinks a little lukewarm water boiled with kushtha, haritaki and musta.

At the appearance of the prodromes of kushtha the body is purified by emesis and purgation; kushtha seated in the skin calls for more thorough purification by emesis and purgation and for…

For kushtha in the blood, the measures of skin kushtha (emesis, purgation) and application are combined with bloodletting and decoctions; for kushtha in the flesh, the same purifications…

Ghee or sesame oil cooked with the paste and decoction of the various kushtha-destroying drugs, used daily for massage, drinking, affusion and head purgation, is said to remove kushtha…

For kushtha patients: emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days, and head purgation every three days by a careful physician; the text calls this…

When the prodromes of kushtha appear, the body should be purified by both routes, emesis and purgation; for kushtha seated in the skin, too, extra purification by emesis and purgation and…

Ghee or sesame oil cooked with the paste and decoction of the various kushtha-destroying drugs, used daily in several ways, is said to remove kushtha quickly.

In kushtha from the three doshas, ghee or good oil cooked with various drugs that break the force of kushtha is given to drink to purify the patient's body.

Kushtha seated in the skin, blood and flesh is curable with the prescribed medicines; kushtha in the fat is manageable (yapya); the rest is to be left as incurable.

Mahakushtha arises from vata and parisarpa and others from pitta, while the remaining kinds arise from all three doshas; in mahakushtha there are beating and splitting pains and contraction…

Emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days and head purgation every three days are called the course for all kushtha. Without further headings the…

Kilasa, named as another kind set apart from the kushthas, kushtha produced by all three doshas, non-discharging pale kushtha seated in the skin, and congenital kushtha are all incurable.

A ghee pot is heated in fire, leaves of jambu, kapittha, tulasi, mango and citron are boiled in it, it is washed with fragrant water, smeared inside with pepper and pippali in sugar water,…

Emesis every fifteen days, strong purgation every month, bloodletting every six days and head purgation every three days.

Through wrong conduct (such as reviling gods, teachers and scriptures) or unwholesome diet, vitiated vata takes up aggravated pitta and kapha and, wherever it throws and lodges them,…

Excessive sweating or no sweating at all, horripilation, loss of touch sensation, blackening of the blood, great heaviness of the body, itching, roughness and tremor are the prodromal signs…