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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 pitta the feet are hot, soft, swollen and burning; with kapha they itch and are heavy and densely swollen; with all three doshas the signs of all three appear.

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…

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…

The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

Pandu is described in four kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three) sharing pallor and told apart by colour: black, yellow, white or all three. It is treated by purification followed by licked…

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

The bowel (koshtha) is said to be of three kinds: soft when pitta predominates, medium when kapha predominates and hard when vata predominates.

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…

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

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.

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Kasa is described as vitiated prana vayu joined with udana leaving the mouth with a cracked-bronze sound. It has five kinds; the kshayaja kind is tridoshic and hard to treat.

The decoction enema is called niruha because it removes all the doshas, and asthapana because it preserves youth (vayasthapana).

The introduction says the gross dhātus appear in increasing order as animal bodies become more complex: some creatures have only rasa and rakta, some rasa, rakta and māṁsa, and some rasa,…

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

Apasmara is named for the loss of memory with deadly fear and fainting; it arises from the three doshas with vata predominant, shows falling, teeth gnashing, phlegm vomiting, upturned eyes…

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Murchha (fainting) is described as the doshas covering the channels of consciousness so that the patient sees darkness and falls; it is of six kinds (blood, poison, vata, pitta, kapha,…

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,…

Bhagandara is described as a very painful boil near the anus, within two finger-breadths of it, that bursts there. Five kinds are named after vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas and injury…