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When nausea and salivation begin after the emetic drug, the patient is seated on a seat (knee-high, per the commentary) and the throat is touched inside (tickled) with the stalk of a castor…

After oleation and sudation, triphala and madanaphala mixed with a paste of rock salt, vacha and long pepper are cooked in milk; the patient, seated on a steady, soft seat as high as the…

When the patient who has drunk the emetic begins to feel nausea and salivate, the physician seats him at once on a (knee-high) seat and, to bring on the urge, touches the inside of his…

After oleation and sudation the patient sits on a knee-high, steady, soft seat and drinks the lukewarm emetic milk in the morning; vomiting is then encouraged with a finger or a soft stick…

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…

Bala graha is described as the seizure of children by grahas, each with its own signs and its own baths, oils, ghee, fumigations, amulets and offerings.

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.

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…

Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…

Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated…

The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…

Opening line of chapter 22, whose running head names it the section on treating complications of medicinal procedures (भैषजकर्मोपद्रवचिकित्साधिकार). After the invocation it takes up the…

The fifteen complications (vyapad) that the text says can follow errors in emesis and purgation, each described with its signs and treatment.

The subject of chapter 22: disorders that arise when therapeutic procedures such as oleation, sweating, emesis and purgation are applied wrongly, too little or too much.

External treatment, which the text calls only an auxiliary cause of the calming of disease (dharma being the internal cause) and which is the subject of the rest of the book. Following…

Green gram soup is said to suit, and benefit, people whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, whose bodies are wasted by wounds, who are very thirsty,…

For the medium body, emesis is to be given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn; this is how the noble ones preserve the health of the healthy. A footnote…

The anorexic patient is promptly given emesis, purgation and decoction enema, digestion-kindling drugs, nasal medication, strong held liquids and gargles.

In the five great disorders of semen, oleation, emesis, purgation, niruha and anuvasana are applied and then the uttarabasti. In disorders of menstrual blood the procedures from oleation up…

A complication in which emesis or purgation removes too little of the doshas; the text lists its effects and treats it by repeating the procedure suitably.

Blood-type abhishyanda is treated quickly with pitta-removing remedies, bloodletting and purification such as emesis and purgation, and with all cooling measures.