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The introduction defines bala as the strength of the body and says it is of three kinds: arising from time (kālaja), inborn (sahaja) and produced by proper means (yuktikṛta).

To strengthen (brimhana) the mercury it is always made fire-resistant by tapana, vasana and kasana: rock salt, orpiment, Multani earth and grain husk are ground thick with juices, raisins…

To strengthen (brimhana) mercury the text says it should always be made fire-resistant (agnisaha) by tapana, vasana and kasana, in the order of the Jina doctrine, by which it becomes very…

Milk mixed with shilavalka powder is cooked into kheer; eaten constantly, it is said to make even a very weak person very strong within a month.

Milk mixed with shilavalka powder is cooked into kheer (payasa); eaten constantly, the text says, it makes even a very weak person very strong within a month.

When sweat appears and strength slackens during exercise, one should understand that half the strength remains and stop; excessive exercise is said to destroy (the verse: kill) a person. A…

Some thin people are strong and some stout people weak, so strength should be judged in several ways rather than by the look of the body, for example by making the person run or carry a…

Excellent strength (sattva) arises from the subsidence, destruction, or partial destruction and subsidence of one's karmas (the commentary names the karma that obstructs energy,…

Strength is chief for all undertakings, so the knowing physician should consider it first; one who wants success in treatment should expect it in treatment given to the strong.

Kheer cooked from milk mixed with shilavalka powder, eaten constantly, is said to make even a very weak person very strong within a month.

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.

The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…

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.

The verse says that a medicine given in a deficient or excessive measure is marked by faults beginning with failure.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

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 text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

The introduction says mental health is maintained by brahmacarya and mental restraint, especially restraint over all the objects of the senses. Śukra dhātu, ojas and param ojas are the…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

The verse says balance (sāmya) is a state of good calm; appetite, digestion and strength are its marks, wholesome and measured diet is its means, and strength is held to bring the…

Exercise is to be taken daily. It is said to kindle the digestive fire, free the body of disease, remove sleepiness, lethargy and obesity, and give lustre, nourishment, health and long…

Barley, like wheat, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.