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Chhardi is the coming out by the mouth of what was eaten, caused by aggravated doshas or other causes. It has five kinds and is treated by dosha; vomiting with blood, pus and kapha,…

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…

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

An unsuitable purifying medicine that has gone partly up and partly down and cannot remove the remaining doshas causes great disorders: fainting, vomiting, anorexia, thirst, impure…

A complication of emesis or purgation in which an unsuitable medicine moves partly up and partly down without removing the doshas; the text lists its effects and treats it with emesis using…

When nausea and salivation begin after the emetic drug, the patient is seated on a seat (knee-high, per the commentary) and the throat is touched inside (tickled) with the stalk of a castor…

When the patient who has drunk the emetic begins to feel nausea and salivate, the physician seats him at once on a (knee-high) seat and, to bring on the urge, touches the inside of his…

A complication in which emesis or purgation removes too little of the doshas; the text lists its effects and treats it by repeating the procedure suitably.

Too small or weak an emetic does not remove all the doshas, causing headache, worsening of the disease and nausea, and a strong patient is made to vomit again; a purgative that fails causes…

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…