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An enema of the decoction of milky-sap trees, the sweet drug group and cooling drugs, with a paste of the same drugs and sugar, sugarcane juice, milk and ghee, called the pacifying enema,…

An enema of the decoction of milky trees, sweet drugs and cooling drugs, with a paste of the same drugs and sugar, sugarcane juice, milk and ghee, is called a pacifying (prashamana) enema,…

Gulma is a round lump between the heart and the bladder, of five kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three, and blood in women); it is treated with purgation, dosha-pacifying drugs, enemas, the…

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

Shvasa is described as prana vayu moving the wrong way and rising upward, alone or with kapha. It has five kinds: kshudra and tamaka are curable, the other three are to be abandoned.

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

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…

After oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation, oil and decoction enemas, bloodletting or head purgation, the patient is to avoid anger, sex, long sitting, much walking or standing,…

The text says that to relieve heart disease, enemas are also given with drugs suited to pacifying the respective doshas.

After the bowel has been cleansed by niruha, the patient is bathed in warm water, given a light meal prepared with dosha-pacifying medicines and then given an anuvasana enema by rule. To…

For a person whose body is made impure by strong wastes and afflicted by strong vata, the text says the anuvasana enema, being suited to pacifying the doshas, is to be given always, by…

The strong patient first gets emesis and then oil enema and other purifications; the weak patient gets pacifying medicines only.

For a strong shvasa patient, emesis is given first and then oil enema and the other purifications; a weak patient is given pacifying medicines instead.

For vata spread through the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and an enema is given…

A strong patient is first given emesis and then oil enema and other purifications; a weak patient is treated with pacifying medicines only.

When vata pervades the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and enema therapy (basti) is…