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Alternatively the patient drinks the pleasant soup (juice) of pigeon pea prepared with pungent, hot drugs, which is called wholesome.

As another diet once the ghee is digested, light and warm food is given as suitable with soups of horse gram, mung or pigeon pea and a suitable khala.

The soup (sūpa) of these pulses, pigeon pea and green gram, is said to be especially wholesome; the commentary adds that their dāl is especially beneficial in fever and diarrhoea.

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 patient with the eye disease should drink a little lukewarm water boiled with kushtha, haritaki and musta, or the pleasant soup of pigeon pea (adhaki) prepared with pungent, hot drugs,…

The patient is given a light meal once a day of soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee and sour fruits, increasing step by step to full meals. Wound treatment is applied properly,…

Once the drunk ghee is digested, the person is given yavagu cooked with coriander and neem, or a yavagu prepared with drugs suited to the dosha, or light warm food with soups of horse gram,…

Aggravated kapha is said to be calmed by alkalis, the group of hot substances, light and clear food and drink in small amounts, soups of horse gram and mung, pungent soups of peas and…

Coryza is said to ripen quickly with warm water boiled with dry ginger, milk cooked with red shigru and fresh ginger, sharp foods such as mustard, soups of pea, pigeon pea and green gram,…

Pigeon pea is said to be most wholesome for kapha and pitta while slightly provoking vata; green gram is similar, removes fever and suits every kind of diarrhoea; the soup (dāl) of these is…

Soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee, and sour fruits, are given as a light meal once a day, and the food is then increased step by step until full meals are eaten.

Sharp foods such as mustard and soups made of kala (glossed jujube), pea, pigeon pea and green gram are said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Dry grains such as shyamaka, foxtail millet and varaka, with soup of green gram and pigeon pea, cooked in decoction of amaltas and neem or in khadira water, are the food for the kushtha…

The kushtha patient should eat dry grains such as shyamaka, foxtail millet and varaka (moth bean in the commentary) with soup of green gram and pigeon pea, cooked in decoction of amaltas…