Explore the knowledge

Complete stiffness, much yawning and heavy breathing are among the signs of aggravated vāta.

An enema complication with hard-to-cure stiffness of the limbs and signs of vata aggravation.

The jaw joint comes loose from excess vata or a blow, with the signs of ardita; it is treated like ardita.

Vata reaching the thighs makes both thighs stiff and motionless; they become cold, numb and so heavy that they seem to be someone else's legs, with unbearable pain, anxiety, body ache,…

When the jaw stiffens in excessive emesis, it is fomented with excellent drugs that destroy kapha and vata.

A thick poultice is bound on a body made stiff and contracted by vata; vata in the shoulders, collarbones, throat and chest is quickly pacified with nasal therapy and emesis.

For a body made stiff and contracted by vata a thick poultice is to be bound on. Vata in the shoulders, collarbones, throat and chest is to be pacified quickly with nasal therapy (nasya)…

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

Excessive sleep, with coldness, stupor and stiffness, is among the signs of aggravated kapha.

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

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…

Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…

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…

In a person full of vata, dry by nature or lying improperly, an enema of weak drugs causes hard-to-cure angagraha (stiffness of the limbs) with fatigue, yawning, tremor and other vata…

Ani, three finger-breadths above the knee, gives pain, thigh stiffness and spreading swelling when wounded; urvi, in the middle of the thigh, gives bleeding and swelling of the thigh.

Ani marma lies three finger-breadths above the knee on both sides; a wound there causes pain, stiffness of the thigh and increasing swelling.

Very sharp medicine given to someone thoroughly oleated and sweated with a very soft bowel causes atiyoga. Excessive emesis brings out too much pitta with exhaustion, loss of strength and…

Seeing strong aggravation of the doshas and a stiff body, fasting is prescribed; if thirsty, a patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and…

Gulpha marma lies at the joint of foot and shank (the ankle); a blow there causes stiffness, numbness (loss of touch) and pain.

Kurcha, above the middle of the foot on both sides, makes the foot whirl or tremble when wounded; kurchashira, below the ankle, gives swelling and pain; gulpha, at the ankle joint, gives…

Before coryza appears there is sneezing, aching of the whole body, heaviness of the head, stiffness, constant horripilation without cause, and thirst and other complications.

In rajimanta poisoning the blood turns reddish and slimy, then the flesh turns very pale, then saliva flows profusely, then come neck stiffness and severe headache, then speech stops, then…