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Lentil (masūra) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Almost all pulses (arhar, chickpea, lentil and others) are described as dry, cooling, astringent and sweet, causing retention of stool and increasing vata; being astringent, they are said…

Pigeon pea is said to be most wholesome for kapha and pitta while slightly provoking vata; green gram is similar, removes fever and suits every kind of diarrhoea; the soup (dāl) of these is…

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 face is called half of the body and its chief part, and within the face the eye is valued above the other senses; a person without eyes is likened to a tree surrounded by darkness.

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

Pox is said to arise from the anger of cruel grahas, smelling the poisonous flowers of poison trees, poisoning, irregular eating, disturbed seasons, transgressing religious duties,…

Vāta is said to be aggravated by excessive exercise and sexual activity, long journeys on foot, riding, carrying loads, wrong times of sleep, immersion in water and blows of wind; by…

Drishti is described as the part arising where the karma that veils the eye-sense is subsided and destroyed, round and the size of a lentil, suited to coolness, through which forms are…

The silk-cotton tree, lentil, the kachnār tree, the pomegranate tree and the kaṭāī plant are called the five lavaṇī plants, which always grow on the seashore.

The patient is given a light meal once a day of soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee and sour fruits, increasing step by step to full meals. Wound treatment is applied properly,…

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram cooked with milk, ghee and oil are bound with leaves over the place of severe pain in vatarakta.

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram are cooked with milk, ghee and oil and bound with leaves wherever the pain is severe; when the doshas are greatly…

As a round, lentil-sized part suited to coolness, arising where the karma that veils the eye-sense is subsided and destroyed; it perishes quickly and must be protected with great care.

A thick paste of ground green gram, pigeon pea, sesame, peas, lentils, black gram, wheat, rice and barley with very cool ghee, jaggery, sugarcane juice and milk is applied in vatarakta with…

In vatarakta with strong pitta, a thick paste of ground green gram, pigeon pea, sesame, peas, lentils, black gram, wheat, rice and barley, mixed with very cool ghee, jaggery, sugarcane…

Everything in the world is said to be of three kinds: having a nourishing quality, having a destructive quality, or having neither.

Pulses as a class (arhar, chickpea, lentil and others) are described as dry, cooling, astringent-sweet, binding and vata-increasing, and being astringent they suit raktapitta. Horse gram is…

Five 'lavaṇī' plants growing on the seashore, glossed as silk-cotton, lentil, kachnār, pomegranate and kaṭāī, are said to remove vata, produce kapha, pitta and blood, cause wasting (śoṣa),…

Soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee, and sour fruits, are given as a light meal once a day, and the food is then increased step by step until full meals are eaten.

Heading of the section on masurika, the lentil-like eruptive disease (pox), covering its causes, forms, prodromes, dosha types, fatal signs and treatment.

According to the dosha involved, the eruptions are shaped like sand grains, mustard seeds or lentils, or like all kinds of grains and split pulses, and in due time turn yellow like ripe…

A large boil accompanied by small boils is putrini; one that is large at the base, very painful, shaped like a tortoise's back, with severe pricking, smooth and very distressing is…