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The skin is said to have seven layers (tvak).

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

When the ulcers have healed, the skin colour is restored by applying, with ghee and sugar, turmeric, red ochre, or cool fragrant sandal or manjishtha; or kapittha, shali rice, khas and…

Chapter 14 returns to the minor diseases described before and sets out more of them briefly, with their dosha features and beneficial drugs, starting with ajagalli.

Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated…

Kapittha, shali rice, khas and hribera; or peas, kaleyaka and jasmine leaves; or sesame and dark sandal, ground in milk and mixed with cow's ghee, are applied to make the skin its normal…

Discharge, itching, heaviness of the body, coldness and swelling are the signs of kapha kushtha; kushtha seated in the skin shows a colour unlike the skin and dryness.

Cautery confined to the skin shows discolouration, many blisters, contraction of the skin, intense burning, much bad smell and great heat; cautery reaching the flesh shows slight pain and…

For vata lodged in the skin and vessels the text prescribes repeated bloodletting; for vata that has reached the bones, joints and dhamanis, quick sudation followed by binding.

When the prodromes of kushtha appear, the body should be purified by both routes, emesis and purgation; for kushtha seated in the skin, too, extra purification by emesis and purgation and…

Named among the growths for which cautery is prescribed.

After the burn wound has filled in, the text says to restore the skin's natural colour with the colour-restoring applications described for shvitra and to give the patient unctuous,…

Once the burn wound has healed, its colour is made like the surrounding skin with the many colour-restoring applications described for shvitra, and the patient eats unctuous, pleasant, cool…

When vata lodges in the skin and vessels, bloodletting is to be done repeatedly; when it reaches the bones, joints and dhamanis, sudation is to be given quickly and then a binding…

After pox ulcers heal, turmeric, or red ochre, or cool fragrant sandal or manjishtha, rubbed down and mixed with ghee and sugar, is applied regularly to restore the skin colour.

The bhallataka-seed paste (verse 97) and the bhallatakadi paste (verse 98), both made with burnt drugs in sesame oil.

Named in this range among the facial conditions that rubbing the face with the hands every day after meals is said to remove.

हिन्दी: शालपर्णी, शालवन, शाखिन, पूर्णिमा · मराठी: सालवण

Verses 3 and 4 describe swelling as local or general, give a poor outlook for spreading swelling with wasting of the other limbs, and name the pot-shaped, mouthless and opened forms…

The text says the pastes and treatments given for kushtha also apply to shvitra, and then gives pastes that restore normal skin colour.