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A footnote defines nasya as medicine taken in through the nose.

The use of nasal therapy and emesis in spring is said to be very beneficial, as taught by the Jina.

From here the text will describe smoking (dhumapana), holding of gargles (kavalagraha) and nasal therapy (nasya), the complications of their improper use and their treatment. Smoke is of…

A thin body, like a stout one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.

A footnote says kapha is aggravated in spring by the nature of the season, so emesis is given then.

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…

Weak digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated kapha.

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

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,…

Oil cooked with two parts of a decoction of kasha grass, darbha, kusha, patala and bilva, one part of milk and half as much oil as milk; applied by nasal therapy and similar means, it is…

A thick poultice is bound on a body made stiff and contracted by vata; vata in the shoulders, collarbones, throat and chest is quickly pacified with nasal therapy and emesis.

Oil cooked with a paste and decoction of well-known vata-reducing drugs, jujube and barley water, horse-gram soup, curd, milk, sour fruits and ghee; it is to be used in apatanaka and the…

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),…

Oil cooked with two parts of a decoction of kasha grass, darbha, kusha, patala and bilva, one part of milk and half as much oil as milk, applied by nasal therapy and similar means, is said…

For the thin, water is commended, and milk is to be given after meals; with nasal therapy, linctus, gargles and similar measures his digestive fire should always be protected.

An oil named Mithuna, prepared with the ashtavarga (jivaka, rishabhaka, kakoli, kshirakakoli, meda, mahameda, riddhi, vriddhi), is to be used like the vata-reducing oil for nasal therapy,…

The text says the thin body is to be made plump with unctuous, nourishing medicines, food and drink, natural thinness to be nourished with effort, water commended and milk given after…

After oleation the patient is purged, and venesection (siravimoksha) and enema are done; nasal therapy, putapaka, tarpana, smoking, sudation and leaf bandaging are also applied. An…

The commentary lists the measures in order: drying, plastering, affusion, rubbing, heating (sudation), bandaging, scraping, bursting open, dissolving, nasal therapy, drinking, holding…

For greatly increased vata disorders the full range of procedures told earlier is to be used as needed: oleation, emesis, pastes, purgation, oil massage, fumigation, mouth-holding (kavala),…

The physician should correct the digestive fire troubled in turn by vāta, pitta and kapha with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy, respectively.

The text says the digestive fire troubled by vāta, pitta and kapha is to be corrected, in that order, with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy.

For a body made stiff and contracted by vata a thick poultice is to be bound on. Vata in the shoulders, collarbones, throat and chest is to be pacified quickly with nasal therapy (nasya)…

This oil is to be used in akshepaka, apatanaka and the major vata diseases for nasal therapy, nourishing the head (tarpana), affusion, massage and enemas. An oil called Mithuna, prepared…