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The body is said to have one spleen (plīhā).

In udara arising from the liver or spleen, after the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (for the liver) or of the left arm (for the spleen) is pierced…

Enlargement of the spleen on the left side, arising from the same causes as liver enlargement.

After the patient has eaten plenty of curd, the vein in the middle of the right arm (liver) or left arm (spleen) is pierced while the spleen is pressed; lukewarm cow milk with camphor is…

Fever, intense burning, much water and burning-type foods aggravate vitiated blood, so the liver on the right or the spleen on the left enlarges, giving yakridudara or plihodara.

Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

Black salt, asafoetida and dry ginger mixed in strained palasha-ash water, or sea salt cooked with the alkalis, are drunk and said to destroy plihodara.

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

Hikka is provoked vayu (prana with kapha) rising repeatedly to the mouth with a hik sound while afflicting spleen, intestines and liver. It has five kinds, and certain signs mark it as…

Trishna is a strong thirst in the heart region that arises when vitiated liver and spleen dry the throat and palate. It has five kinds; ama thirst is counted under the dosha kinds and…

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 introduction says the Yajurveda describes the mantra-accompanied offering of particular parts of sacrificial animals, and that its Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas, especially the Aitareya…

Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

Horse-gram soup (kulattha-yūṣa) is listed among the causes of pitta aggravation.

Pitta resides between the digestive bowel and the stomach, in the heart, and in the liver and spleen, and, carried by vāta, pervades the whole body. A footnote names its five kinds: pācaka…

Named in this range only as a disorder that horse gram is said to remove.

A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with…

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

When provoked vayu, forcefully afflicting spleen, intestines and liver, comes up to the mouth again and again with a hik sound, it is hikka; because it destroys the life-breaths it is so…

When liver and spleen are vitiated by the doshas, the throat and palate dry and a strong thirst arises in the heart region. Like cough it has five kinds; a footnote lists vataja, pittaja,…

From vata, injury or heat, pitta becomes aggravated and the vitiated vata corrupts the blood seated in the liver and spleen; blood then flows downward (from penis, vagina or anus), upward…