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

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

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…

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 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 verse gives a threefold order of diet for children (milk only, milk with food, then good food) and says that for the other stages proper meals are best.

The six seasons, two months each, are listed from Caitra: vasanta (also called madhu, when flowers and fruits flourish) in Caitra and Vaiśākha, grīṣma in Jyeṣṭha and Āṣāḍha, varṣā in…

Virasa is a perverted taste in the mouth caused by the doshas, treated by mouth-washes, tooth-sticks, held liquids, gargles and head purgation.

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

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…

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…

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.

The doshas pervert the taste of the mouth. The mouth is washed with decoctions that counter the dosha and the present taste, and suitable tooth-sticks, held liquids, gargles and head…

Sitting steadily on a clean, comfortable seat and considering one's constitution and strength, one should eat lukewarm food suited to all seasons, neither too slowly nor too fast, with…

A complication named in the text for purgation and for enemas, in which pitta and kapha keep draining in small amounts with weakness and fatigue.

Whatever is sharp, unctuous, hot, salty, very heavy, sour, slimy, or sweet, pungent and bitter in nature is said to destroy vata disorders; knowing their tastes and qualities, they are used…

Stiffness, coldness, swelling, heaviness, hardness, intense cold, severe itching, unctuousness and wetness, salivation, distaste for food, heaviness of the head, excessive sleep, weak…

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

In hemanta, food with salty/alkaline and astringent items, with ghee and oil, and with sour and sweet tastes is said to be wholesome, and almost every kind of water is suitable; pungent,…