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Massaging the soles of the feet with oil is said to calm burning of the feet, bring sound sleep and make the eyes clear.

Oil cooked with all the fragrant drugs is used for massage of a child seized by the Kimpurusha graha.

Massage with oil is said to destroy kapha and vata, and massage with ghee pitta and blood disorders (the commentary: raktapitta). Entering through the hair pores, it is said to soothe the…

Massage with oil is said to destroy kapha and vata, and massage with ghee pitta and blood disorders (the commentary: raktapitta). Entering through the hair pores, it is said to nourish (the…

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…

Taking digestion as the example, the introduction says the pācaka pitta in the āmāśaya, pakvāśaya and similar organs is gross and can be seen directly, with qualities such as a raw smell…

With the vata-reducing measures described, the pregnant woman, the newly delivered woman and the child are to be brought to comfort with great effort, and the child is then to be nourished.

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

After the child and placenta have come out the woman is called sutika. Then, with care, for one month she is given oil massage, nourishing applications to the vagina (yoni tarpana), drinks…

The kharpari kalpa is taken daily in the order described for one year; during this time the person bathes with the same water, keeps the body oiled (oil massage), lives in the house…

One should always walk wearing footwear, which is said to bring health and softness (the commentary: of the body). Oil massage of the soles is said to calm burning of the feet and to give…

The clean powder of the bhallataka stone, recognised by its place and other signs, is collected. One adhaka each of the stone powder, the best cow ghee, bhallataka oil and pure jaggery is…

A special black stone called bhallataka stone is found three kos east of the famous city of Kolipaka, beside a village of the same name. One adhaka each of its powder, cow ghee, bhallataka…

Once the child and the placenta are out the woman is called sutika; for one month she is given oil massage, nourishing of the vagina (yoni tarpana), drinks and other vata-removing measures…

Knowing from pain in the waist and back and the discharge of much kapha with urine that delivery is near, the woman is anointed with oil and bathed with warm water, then laid on her back on…

A child seized by the Kinnara graha is massaged with sesame oil prepared with vata-pacifying, fragrant drugs and bathed in water prepared with the same drugs.

Intermittent fevers (ekantara, santata, satata, anyedyushka, tritiyaka, chaturthaka and others) are treated with dosha-specific medicines and preparations made from them; for those with…

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

The oil-massaged patient sits in a large iron or copper vessel of warm vata-reducing decoction reaching to the chest, or sits in an empty vessel while the decoction is poured over him in a…

For vata colic after dry, cold purifiers, the patient is massaged with oil and sweated, then given an anuvasana enema of oil cooked with a decoction and paste of liquorice (yashti).

Before an oil or niruha enema the patient is quickly given an oil massage and sweating and made to pass stool and urine. He is then laid on a clean floor bed in the middle of a windless…

The patient is first given a proper oil massage and a warm-water bath, then fed as the science directs, and the anuvasana enema with rock salt and shatapushpa powder is given skilfully. He…

The patient fit for uttarabasti is oleated and bathed (sweated) with warm water, given a gruel with ghee and milk to drink and made to pass stool and urine. He is seated squatting on a…