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Principle
Light quality (laghu)
लघु गुण (हल्का) · लघु
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Principle
Substances (dravya)
द्रव्य
The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…
Food
Water (jala)
जल (पानी) · जल
The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…
Principle
Ten qualities of poison
विष के दस गुण · विषदशगुण
Poison is said to have ten qualities: dry (rūkṣa), hot (uṣṇa), sharp (tīkṣṇa), quick (āśu), pervasive (vyāpaka or vyavāyī, spreading through the whole body before being digested),…
Topic
What the ten qualities do
दस गुणों के कार्य · दशगुणों के कार्य
Dryness provokes vāta, heat provokes pitta and blood, subtlety lets poison spread through the finest parts of the body, and sharpness breaks the body parts and vital points. Pervasiveness…