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Granthi are nodules arising from vitiated blood, the doshas, flesh, fat and vessels, treated by dosha and tissue with drugs, pastes and poultices; siraja granthi is incurable when immobile…

Apachi is described as small hard swellings, round or long, formed by fat accumulating at the jaw, throat, eyes and joints; some burst and discharge, some subside by themselves and new ones…

Alkali is said always to follow the properties of urine.

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…

A hard nodule from kapha and vata vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and ligaments, which discharges honey-, fat- or ghee-like matter when it bursts, then hardens into gravel-like nodules…

A minor disease: nodules like a snake's anthill on the palms and soles, chest, throat, joints and above the collarbone, from much pitta with kapha.

Vitiated blood, the doshas, flesh, fat and vessels give rise to nodules (granthi) with the corresponding features; all are treated according to dosha and tissue with the drugs repeatedly…

From kapha and vata, five or six nodular eruptions with a closed middle raised like a tortoise's back form kacchapika; on the palms and soles, chest, throat, joints and the region above the…

Aggravated kapha and vata, vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and all the ligaments, form a very hard large nodule that, when it ripens and bursts, discharges matter like honey, fat or…

A minor disease: five or six nodular eruptions from kapha and vata, with a closed middle raised like a tortoise's back.

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…

About twenty drugs, among them mahanimba, kutaja, arka, snuhi, apamarga, chitraka, palasha, shigru, both nightshades, vasa, patala, bilva, both karanjas, chavya, bhallataka and vaijayanti,…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka (gokhuru in the commentary), mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal amount…

An alkali made from the ash of the black mushkaka tree boiled in water, strained and thickened, with burnt conch navel, lime, putikaranja and bhallataka added; it is to be drunk in proper…

A black mushkaka tree is uprooted, dried and burnt to ash; one drona of the ash is boiled with six adhaka of water in a large clean vessel until the liquid is clear, red and sharp,…

Equal parts of the leaves of karanja, both nightshades, putikaranja, chitraka, ikshuraka, mushkaka, punarnava and castor are powdered, mixed with an equal weight of sea salt, sealed in an…

The potable kind of kshara is said to be used in compound poisoning (gara), abdominal enlargement, gulma, weak digestion, urinary stone and gravel, various nodules, piles, severe internal…

After venesection, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga,…

Alkali is said always to share the properties of urine. It overcomes kushtha, tumours, nodules, kilāsa, painful urination, piles, corrupted wounds and all worm diseases, and by its fiery…

Rubbing the body with paste is called always good when there is skin discolouration, a kapha or fat disorder, itching, emaciation, affliction by vata, or raktapitta. Rubbing with a paste of…

Rubbing the body with a paste of wheat and the like, friction and dusting with medicinal powders (the verse: foam rubbing, massage and the like) are said to make the body firm and the skin…

Some apachi nodules burst by themselves and discharge pus, some subside by themselves, and new ones of various irregular forms keep appearing; the oil described earlier is to be used for…

Lips split by injury with much swelling are the injury type. Each lip disease is treated with dosha-specific drugs, plasters, fomentation and bloodletting as needed, or by the methods for…

In kushtha from the three doshas the patient drinks ghee or good oil cooked with drugs that break the force of kushtha, to purify the body. After judging curability and letting blood from a…