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Arochaka is an unmatched aversion to food caused by aggravated doshas, emotions such as grief, fear and anger, and impaired digestive fire.

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.

Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

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…

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,…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

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…

Loss of appetite, indigestion, discharge of phlegm, pinasa (a nasal disease), lethargy, excessive sleep, flies settling on the patient and sliminess of the mouth are the complications of…

When provoked, dūṣīviṣa causes vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever, burning, breathlessness, cough, intermittent fever, swelling, insanity, diarrhoea and abdominal disease such as…

The right amount of ghee is the amount that digests well by midday without causing mada, fatigue, languor, burning, fainting or loss of appetite; the commentary notes this measure is held…

Eruptions that are saucer-shaped with a sunken mouth, have a central knob, are ringed like burns, hard, very red or black with wide mouths, with fever, diarrhoea and colic, or with…

Before pox appears there are high fever, loss of appetite, horripilation, burning, thirst, pain in the head, limbs and heart, aching joints, heavy sleep, delirious talk, fainting,…

A patient with marked loss of appetite, flanks that feel broken, swelling, and fluid that quickly refills even after purgation is to be abandoned as incurable.

Diarrhoea born of excessive grief that passes very bloody, very hot stool with bloating and colic, joined by complications such as thirst, swelling, fever, breathlessness and cough, with…

Aggravated kapha is said to produce loss of touch sensation, itching, heaviness of the body, whiteness, coldness, stupor, excessive sleep, stiffness, loss of appetite and mild pain.

Aggravated pitta is said to produce great heat, drying (of the throat), fainting, burning, a feeling of smoke rising from the mouth, loss of appetite, anger, distress, heat of the body,…

In brief: aggravated vāta gives a moving, pricking pain in the abdomen; aggravated pitta gives sourness and burning; and aggravated kapha gives nausea (the commentary says belching) and…

Ghee for oleation must not be given in loss of appetite, new fever, heart disease, pregnancy, fainting, intoxication, giddiness, fatigue, emaciation, after alcohol, in abdominal disease,…