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Sunn hemp (san) flowers are listed among flowers said to increase vata and kapha, calm pitta and blood, and expel worms from the belly.

A very hard, uneven, large swelling at the jaw joint (from vata and kapha, the commentary says) is pashanagardabha; a similar swelling from excess pitta that does not ripen, spreads here…

A minor disease: a very hard, uneven, large swelling at the jaw joint, from vata and kapha according to the commentary.

For a thin prameha patient, nourishing medicines that build up the body; for a stout patient, reducing (karshana) measures that make him lean.

Thick, salty kapha accumulated earlier in the vital spot of the head flows out from the head (mahabhramshana, also called bhramshathu); it is overcome with pressed and purging nasal drops.

A footnote defines balanced fire as the fire that properly digests food taken in the proper amount.

Barnyard millet (śyāmāka) is listed among the foods whose use aggravates vāta.

Bael fruit heads a list of fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

The verse counts, in order, three hundred bones and three hundred joints, followed by nine hundred sinews, seven hundred veins and five hundred muscles.

Shvasa is described as prana vayu moving the wrong way and rising upward, alone or with kapha. It has five kinds: kshudra and tamaka are curable, the other three are to be abandoned.

Sourness and burning are given as the brief signs of aggravated pitta.

Sandalwood fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

The opposing claim that some substances become like poison when combined is called unproven, contradictory and inconclusive: for some people, those who eat everything, habitually eat before…

Intermittent fevers (ekantara, santata, satata, anyedyushka, tritiyaka, chaturthaka and others) are treated with dosha-specific medicines and preparations made from them; for those with…

The commentary gives nine hundred sinews (snāyu, glossed as नसें) and five hundred muscles (peśī).

The two kinds of orange (nāraṅga-dvaya) are listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse…

Fruits of the milky trees (kṣīrī vṛkṣa)—listed in the commentary as banyan, cluster fig, pīpal's pākhar, phāras and pīpal—are among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to…

The editor says one manuscript records a mantra to be recited when taking medicine, and quotes it: verses praying that, in a body much afflicted by disease, the medicine may be the supreme…

White punarnavā is listed among greens said to remove pitta and kapha, subdue worms and remove skin diseases.

Great diseases are said to arise from the excessive or wrong use (atiyoga, mithyayoga) of purification by emesis and purgation; the text promises their treatment together with the method of…

Heat of the body is among the signs of aggravated pitta.

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…

Stopping of the breath is listed among the signs which, if they appear suddenly together, are said to mean that death is near.

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,…