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Pitta is said to be aggravated by pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and alcohol, and to cause fainting, burning, drying, blisters, delirium and thirst; spread through the…

Opening of the ninth chapter, on pitta disorders: the causes, nature and signs of aggravated pitta and its cooling and purifying treatment, followed by bleeding disorder, abnormal uterine…

Cool food and drink for pitta disorders: milk, ghee, sugarcane juice, pea soup, green gram with jaggery preparations, buffalo curd, matsyakshi greens and meghanada with ghee.

In disorders arising from pitta, the ghee for oleation is drunk mixed with sugar.

In pitta disorders ghee is drunk with sugar, in vata disorders with rock salt and hot water, and in kapha disorders mixed with trikatu and alkali (kshara); the commentary calls this 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…

For menstrual blood that is foul-smelling and like pus or marrow, a decoction of devadaru, mango, sarala, agaru and sandalwood is drunk; for knotted menstrual blood from kapha and vata, a…

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…

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Too little oil in an enema does nothing, and too much drug quickly brings on pravahika, treated as pravahika. A very cold drug provokes vata disorders such as retention and bloating, a very…

Water (decoction or cold infusion) of raisins, liquorice, sugarcane, hribera and nut grass, into which a fine paste of clove, lotus, blue water lily and lotus stamens is stirred with…

Pravahika from an excessive enema dose is treated as pravahika. Vata disorders from a very cold enema drug are treated with an excellent cleansing enema, and pitta disorders from a very hot…

Ash gourd (kuṣmāṇḍa, white gourd), which the commentary names for the verse's 'creeper fruits', is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Aśmantaka fruit (glossed पाषाणभेद in the commentary) is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Pīpal (sacred fig) fruit, as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Marking nut (bhilāvā; verse āruṣkara) fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Bael fruit heads a list of fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Milk that is boiled and then cooled is said to calm pitta disorders; verse 26 adds that boiled and cooled milk binds the stool.

Bottle gourd (लौकी; verse tumbī) is listed among creeper fruits described as tasty and nourishing, kapha-increasing and cold, very wholesome in pitta and blood disorders, slightly…

Fresh butter (navanīta, loṇī) is described as cold, sour and also sweet, very aphrodisiac, kapha-producing, and removing pitta and vata disorders.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

Sandalwood fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.