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Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

Vata reaching the thighs makes both thighs stiff and motionless; they become cold, numb and so heavy that they seem to be someone else's legs, with unbearable pain, anxiety, body ache,…

Alasaka is one of the disorders said to follow indigestion, marked by a full abdomen, listlessness, vomiting, upward-moving wind and retention of stool and urine with severe pain.

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…

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.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

Excessive smoking causes constant ringing in the ears, headache, weak sight, loss of taste, burning and thirst; these are overcome with nourishing of the head, nasya and ghee.

Even a proper oil enema given to a patient who has eaten a full meal is overpowered by the food and does not come out, causing heart pain, breathlessness, cough, hoarseness, loss of taste,…

If the nozzle is pressed with too much force, the oil rises too high, causing breathlessness, cough, loss of taste, much spitting, heaviness of the head and excessive sleep; the mouth…

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Cardamom, cinnamon, nagakesara, long pepper, black pepper and dry ginger are taken in rising parts from one to six, powdered and mixed with sugar equal to all of them. The powder is called…

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

Eleven features are listed: from vata, loss or change of voice, sunken flanks and contraction of the shoulders; from pitta, fever, burning, bleeding and diarrhoea; from kapha, loss of…

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

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…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

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

Manya marmas are the other two of the four throat marmas, one beside nila on each side; a blow there likewise causes muteness, change of voice, loss of taste and death.

The four nila and manya marmas beside the throat cause muteness, voice change, loss of taste and death when struck, and the eight matrika marmas on the neck vessels cause instant death.

Nila marmas lie on the arteries (dhamani) beside the throat, one on each side among the four throat marmas; a blow there causes muteness, change of voice, loss of taste and death.

A complication named in the text for purgation and for enemas, in which pitta and kapha keep draining in small amounts with weakness and fatigue.

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…