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Excessive use of pungent things is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

A salty after-drink for sour foods and a bitter and astringent one for pungent foods; milk is wholesome with every taste.

Astringent vegetables are listed among the causes of vāta aggravation.

Bitter vegetables (the commentary writes तीखा for the verse's tikta) are listed among the causes of vāta aggravation.

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,…

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 introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

Arochaka is an unmatched aversion to food caused by aggravated doshas, emotions such as grief, fear and anger, and impaired digestive fire.

The introduction says meat, like wine and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing living beings and its renunciation is needed to…

The anorexic patient's mouth is washed with a decoction of the urine group, turmeric, the three fruits and sour, alkaline, bitter, pungent, hot and astringent drugs; tooth-sticks of sour…

A decoction of the urine group, turmeric, the three fruits and sour, alkaline, bitter, pungent, hot and astringent drugs is used to wash the anorexic patient's mouth, with tooth-sticks of…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

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…

A footnote says vāta is aggravated in the rainy season by the nature of the season, so enema therapy is given then.

The verse lists the habitual use of a single taste among the causes that bring on the doshas, to be avoided.

The text calls faulty the one-sided views of those who see substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect as separate: if taste, potency and vipaka were different from the substance…

Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

The commentary prescribes the after-drink by the kind of food: sour gruel (kāñjī; the verse says sauvīra) when eating things made of pulses, buttermilk with boiled rice and the like, warm…

The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…

Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…

Sour foods take a salty after-drink, and pungent foods a bitter and astringent one. Milk is called a wholesome after-drink with every taste.

Land dominated by the air quality is hard, uneven and dry, brown or dove-grey, with mostly tasteless grasses, poor crops and hollow trees; its water is pungent (the commentary writes कडुवा)…

Vāta is described as pungent, very dry and mobile; pitta as liquid, bitter (the commentary says sharp), hot and yellow; and kapha as unctuous, sweet in taste, very slow, naturally heavy,…