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Ten kinds of boils said to occur in prameha patients, each named after its form; they arise from the three doshas and show their signs.

For prameha boils, leeches are first applied over the boils to let blood, and then strong purgation is given; the text warns that the madhumeha patient is hard to purge.

Mustard, radish seed, rock salt, drumstick and the three pungents, with other hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are applied to prameha boils by pressing, plastering and bandaging so…

Prameha patients get ten kinds of boils: sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata.

Knowing all these kinds of wounds and their varieties, the skilled physician should cleanse them with cleansing measures and, once clean, heal them with healing decoctions, pastes and the…

Once the boils have ripened by themselves, the physician incises them, cleanses the wound with drugs that keep it clean and then fills it in with healing drugs.

First, bloodletting by applying leeches over the boils is beneficial, and after that strong purgation should be given; the madhumeha patient, however, is hard to purge.

Sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata; they are treated with leeches and strong purgation, ripening applications, incision,…

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

The commentary says that if prameha is not treated quickly it later takes the form of madhumeha; the patient is then called madhumehi and has prameha boils, as the verse also says of the…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

When, with the prodromes present, a person begins to pass much urine, it is to be called prameha, and the patient is called pramidha. The commentary adds that if prameha is not treated…

A decoction of triphala with ghee and shilajit, given to drink, is said to overcome completely all pramehas, together with their many complications and the prameha boils.

It turns in time into madhumeha; the patient is then called madhumehi and develops prameha boils.

If a prameha patient is not treated with the diet, conduct and medicines described, the various unbearable boils described earlier appear, especially in the lower part of his body.

The same oil and ghee are said to benefit malignant tumours, sinus ulcers, piles, breast injuries, boils, purulent ear, prameha, kushtha, kacchu, dadru, apachi and worms.

Sub-heading that opens the section on prameha; its causes, prodromes, pathogenesis, signs, boils, complications, incurable signs and treatment follow under their own headings.

Oil or ghee, or both, cooked with the paste and decoction of some twenty-five drugs, many of them sharp or toxic, used in the bhagandara wound; said to relieve pain and quickly cleanse and…

Prameha patients whose turbid urine flows like fat, ghee or honey or like the rut fluid of an elephant, who have the complications described, boils on the anus, shoulders, heart region,…

A decoction of triphala with ghee and shilajit is given to drink to overcome all pramehas with their complications and boils.