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

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.

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

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

Sores on the penis and scrotum, colic with pain in the bladder (pitta colic), burning, thirst, a sour taste in the mouth, fever, fainting, mada (intoxication) and pandu are the…

The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…

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…

Arochaka is an unmatched aversion to food caused by aggravated doshas, emotions such as grief, fear and anger, and impaired digestive fire.

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 opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

Sour belching and a sour taste in the mouth, loss of taste, burning, abdominal disease, indigestion, emaciation, trembling of the abdomen and many other signs appear before piles develop;…

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

The text calls faulty the one-sided views of those who see substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect as separate: if taste, potency and vipaka were different from the substance…

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…

Then everything this samhita prescribes for nourishing the child is to be done, and the new mother, well anointed with oil, is given a warm gruel (yavagu) with fat and sour taste to drink.

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…