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The text defines rasa as the extremely subtle essence of food that is made of the five elements, of four kinds, endowed with the six tastes, with eight or two kinds of potency and many…

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

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,…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

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 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…

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…

The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…

The introduction says mental health is maintained by brahmacarya and mental restraint, especially restraint over all the objects of the senses. Śukra dhātu, ojas and param ojas are the…

The verse says the poison, carried by vata from one dhatu to another, produces the successive stages, seven in all.

As an example of Samantabhadra's technical terms the editor explains Ratnatrayauṣadha: in ordinary usage it might mean a medicine made from three gems such as diamond, but in Jain doctrine…

Food becomes rasa, then blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and semen.

After first purifying body and self, by emesis and the like and by restraining the passions (kashaya), a person cooks the excellent kharpari, a kind of upadhatu, in water with the triphala…

After purifying body and self by emesis and the like and by restraining the passions, a person cooks the excellent kharpari, a kind of upadhatu, in water with the triphala rasayana…

The verse speaks of bright red lamps with layers dyed with lac (alaktaka); the commentary says the lamp vessels are first smeared with lac juice, the sulphur group and the poison group…

Food and drink become rasa, from which blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and semen arise in turn; the seven dhatus are said to form with the help of elements of hot and cold nature and of the…

The editor quotes Samantabhadra's verse from the Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa on the virtues of rasasindūra made from purified mercury. As far as the converted text can be read, it is said to…

The lamp vessels are first smeared with lac juice and the sulphur and poison groups ground in breast milk; mercury mixed with gold bhasma is tied in a fine cloth and placed in the vessel,…