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Arguing that plants have the power to remove even the most terrible diseases, the editor asks whether Samantabhadrācārya's bhasmaka disease was not removed by Ayurvedic medicine.

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

Sarpakshi is one of the five plants in whose juice mercury is said to be fixed.

A hard, raised, wick-like growth from all three doshas with pricking and splitting pain that blocks the throat; to be given up.

हिन्दी: नाकुलीकन्द, कंकालिका [बंगभाषा], सरहटी, गंडनी · मराठी: थोर मुंगुसवेल, थोर सुगंध, मुंगुस कान्दा, तानवडीचें झाड, श्वेत विष्णुक्रान्ता, रक्त शंखपुष्पी

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…

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…