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The footnote says chitraka root becomes purified when kept in lime water.

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

Tuttha, sandal, red sandal, saffron, kalaguru, mercury, tamala leaf, camphor and lead in equal parts with a double part of nilanjana, powdered into a collyrium and applied with a lead…

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

During her period a woman should, like an ascetic, wholly give up violence and the other four sins and keep silence and similar vows; for three days she avoids garlands, ornaments and…

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

Ajirna is food that is not digested, in three kinds (ama, vidagdha, vishtabdha); constant eating of many foods leads to it and to alasaka, vilambika and vishuchika. It is treated with…

The kalpa of shilajatu is said to be of many kinds; the author gives it with a few variants.

Ashmari (urinary stone) is described as kapha that hardens in the bladder into a dense stone. Kapha predominates in every stone, but four kinds are named after the leading factor: kapha,…

Tuttha, sandal, red sandal, saffron, kalaguru, mercury, tamala leaf, camphor and lead in equal parts, with twice that of nilanjana, are powdered into a collyrium, kept in a box or bottle…

Having understood the death signs in healthy people revealed by the words of the great sage Ugradityacharya, the best of sages should keep firmness and steadiness of mind, reflect on the…

In summer the sun-scorched mountains exude a red juice like lac from their cracked rocks; tin, lead, iron, copper, silver and gold are named as its six sources.

Smooth probes of silver, copper, lead and gold are made for rubbing on the eye and applying collyrium; they are coated with mercury and bahuvara, heated and quenched in sour gruel, and such…

Smooth probes of silver, copper, lead and gold are made for rubbing the eye and applying collyrium; they are coated with mercury and bahuvara (lisoda, per the commentary), heated and…

Hearing of or seeing things experienced in a former birth, seeing similar things in a dream or in fear, inference from such likeness, and the destruction or subsidence of the obscuring…

The editor says Jain medicine has come down from the Lord's divine voice through the gaṇadharas and their disciples, and that medical authors are known even before Samantabhadra: sages of…

A urinary disorder in which intercourse while the urge to urinate is present leads to ash-water-like semen being passed before or after urine.

Thirty-five entries from नक्त (कलिहारी) to न्यग्रोध (बड़, with नीम and बकायन in the Marathi column). They include three names of करंज (नक्तमार, नक्तमाल, नक्ताह्व), नाग (tin, lead, नागकेशर,…

The text says the dushyodara patient is either abandoned as incurable or given poison, which sometimes ends the disease quickly and sometimes leads to an easy death.

For knowers of truth who wish to destroy all karmic enemies and win liberation, the author promises to describe, with their signs and according to the words of Lord Mahavira, the fatal…

Where the making of the decoction is not stated in a ghee or similar recipe, the drug is boiled with four times its quantity of water until an eighth remains and is then strained, according…