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The drug is boiled in four times water and the decoction reduced to a quarter; half that amount of milk and half that amount of ghee or oil are added with drug paste one quarter of the fat,…

Rock salt, the three pungents, asafoetida and vidanga are powdered and mixed with ghee and sesame oil, and smoked; this oily smoke is said to remove vata cough quickly.

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 15 counts ten kinds of head disease: from vata, pitta, kapha, blood and all doshas together, suryavarta, ardhavabhedaka, shankhaka, and the worm-caused and depletion types;…

Vata lodged in the head is treated by oil massage of the head and an oil-soaked pad kept on it, nasya with a medicated oil, pastes of the same drugs, warm sudation with nut grass, bitter…

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…

Oil, ghee, milk and food cooked with a group of pungent drugs and salts, an alkaline decoction, drinks and the ground paste of the same drugs are said always to destroy the kapha-type stone.

Flow of foul-smelling pus from the ear.

If the purifying medicine brings out life-giving blood (jivadana), cooling treatment and cold, blood-stopping drugs are used. A dry purifier taken by someone with indigestion and much vata…

Sub-heading that opens the treatment of kushtha; wholesome vegetables and grains, purification by tissue stage, medicated ghee or oil and powders follow under their own headings.

Opens the section on the treatment of vatarakta, which gives pastes, medicated ghee and milks, oil, diet and a closing summary.

Arbuda is treated with the suitable drug groups described before, rubbing with rough leaves, bloodletting, daily pastes, unction with medicated ghee or oil, leaf poultices and other calming…

For ear disease with foul discharge, medicated liquids or the cleansing oil described earlier are filled into the ear; for piles and abscesses in the ear, the treatments given for piles and…

For much-increased vata cough: emesis, purgation with ghee and oil enema, or the well-known Shatpala ghee. A medicated smoke of rock salt, the three pungents, asafoetida and vidanga mixed…

Arbuda is treated with the suitable drug groups described before, rubbing with rough leaves, bloodletting (opening a vein, says the commentary), daily pastes, unction with medicated ghee or…

The twelve kinds of diet are listed as cold, hot, unctuous, dry, liquid, solid, once a day, twice a day, medicated, reduced in quantity, dosha-pacifying and strengthening (vrishya) food.

If the anus is torn and painful, sprinkling it with lukewarm oil is beneficial, and so is sitting in steaming water cooked with vata-reducing drugs.

Baths in herb decoctions, oil massage, medicated ghee to drink, fumigation, herbal amulets and garlands, offerings (bali) and mantras.