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The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

Curd is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…

Jaggery, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

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…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

A footnote says vāta is aggravated in the rainy season by the nature of the season, so enema therapy is given then.

Rice, ghee, curd, jaggery and other sugarcane products and milk, purification of the body according to the season (by emesis, purgation and the like), self-restraint, exercise, compassion…

Wheat flour is cooked with sugarcane products (the commentary: sugar) and milk and cooled thoroughly; this pleasing confection is eaten with ghee, and the text says that a man who eats it…

Wheat flour cooked with sugarcane products (the commentary: sugar) and milk and cooled thoroughly is eaten with ghee; the text says a man could then enjoy sixty women in turn at one time.

Kapha is said to be aggravated by daily sleep in the daytime, by lack of sexual activity and exercise, by slimy, sour, unctuous (such as ghee and oil), very thick or heavy and salty foods,…

A regimen of rice, ghee, curd, sugarcane products such as jaggery and milk, seasonal purification of the body by emesis, purgation and the like, self-restraint, exercise, compassion for all…

A kushtha patient should not take milk, curd, sugar, jaggery and other sugarcane products, field beans, black gram, sesame, oil, horse gram, flour preparations, heavy foods, (sour) fruits,…

Summer: food rich in milk and ghee, cold drinks, jaggery and sugarcane, and well water. Rains: mainly bitter and astringent food with a little pungent, milk, sugarcane and their products,…

After intercourse one should eat tasty, unctuous, clean, agreeable and pleasing foods prepared with milk, and products of sugarcane such as sugar; then, taking a cool breeze and cooling…

After intercourse one should eat tasty, unctuous, clean and agreeable foods made with milk and sugarcane products such as sugar, take a cool breeze and cooling food and drink, and sleep…