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The body is said to have one liver (yakṛt).

Enlargement of the liver on the right side, from blood vitiated by fever, intense burning, much water and burning-type foods.

Knowing from pain in the waist and back and the discharge of much kapha with urine that delivery is near, the woman is anointed with oil and bathed with warm water, then laid on her back on…

A severe colic in a woman who has delivered, said to arise when her vitiated blood does not flow out properly; it is treated with asthapana and anuvasana enemas or uttarabasti and with…

When delivery is near there is severe pain in the waist and back and much kapha comes with the urine. The woman is then anointed with oil, bathed with warm water and laid on her back with…

After the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (liver) or left arm (spleen) is pierced while the spleen is pressed; lukewarm cow milk with camphor is…

In udara arising from the liver or spleen, after the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (for the liver) or of the left arm (for the spleen) is pierced…

Sesame oil consecrated by reciting the holy names of the Tirthankaras is given to the pregnant woman to drink, and chasha-patra is placed at the mouth of the vagina; the text says these…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil, are to be used for vaginal tarpana (placing a cloth soaked in oil in the vagina), affusion of the body,…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil (described next), are to be used for vaginal tarpana (a cloth soaked in oil placed in the vagina),…

Sesame oil consecrated by reciting the holy names of the Tirthankaras is given to the pregnant woman to drink, and chasha-patra is placed at the mouth of the vagina; the text says delivery…

Fever, intense burning, much water and burning-type foods aggravate vitiated blood, so the liver on the right or the spleen on the left enlarges, giving yakridudara or plihodara.

For the woman after delivery: yavakshara in bhringaraja juice, or with ghee and hot water; or dry ginger, black pepper, long pepper and rock salt in sesame oil, to drink; or old jaggery…

After the child and placenta have come out the woman is called sutika. Then, with care, for one month she is given oil massage, nourishing applications to the vagina (yoni tarpana), drinks…

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed in strained palasha-ash water, or sea salt cooked with the alkalis, are drunk and said to destroy plihodara.

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

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…

Hikka is provoked vayu (prana with kapha) rising repeatedly to the mouth with a hik sound while afflicting spleen, intestines and liver. It has five kinds, and certain signs mark it as…

Trishna is a strong thirst in the heart region that arises when vitiated liver and spleen dry the throat and palate. It has five kinds; ama thirst is counted under the dosha kinds and…

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

The introduction says the Yajurveda describes the mantra-accompanied offering of particular parts of sacrificial animals, and that its Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas, especially the Aitareya…

Jalodara is said to follow drinking much cold water after emesis, purgation, an enema or oleation; the abdomen shakes like a full water-skin, and in its final stage it is called incurable.…