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The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

For all nasal diseases the text lists head purgation, head saturation, medicated smoke, gargles (gandusha) and lickable preparations, together with khala cooked with pungent, hot and…

This closes the account of the properties of liquid substances. The physician is told to explain in the same way the properties of the other wholesome, approved and pleasing foods and…

Footnotes list the eight substances of worship (water, sandal, unbroken rice, flowers, food offering, lamp, incense and fruit) and the five paramesthis (arhat, siddha, acharya, upadhyaya…

Whatever is bitter, dry, pungent, astringent, drying, alkaline, sharp, clear, light and hot destroys kapha; the physician should learn the tastes and qualities of such substances well, and…

Chapter five opens with the subtitle 'section on liquid substances' (dravadravyādhikāra); its running head names the chapter अन्नपानविधि, the rules of food and drink.

Everything in the world is said to be of three kinds: having a nourishing quality, having a destructive quality, or having neither.

Whatever is unctuous, cold, sweet, astringent, bitter (तीखा in the commentary), slimy, very soft and heavy pacifies pitta; knowing their tastes and qualities well, they are used in food,…

Whatever is sharp, unctuous, hot, salty, very heavy, sour, slimy, or sweet, pungent and bitter in nature is said to destroy vata disorders; knowing their tastes and qualities, they are used…

Whatever is cooling, unctuous and sweet is called aphrodisiac by the great sages. Since a healthy body is needed to protect the self, the author turns to the rasāyanas, very potent formulas…

All things in the world are of three kinds: those with a nourishing quality, those with a destructive quality, and those with neither. Curd, ghee, milk, buttermilk, barley, shāli rice,…

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.

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 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…

Every grain should be used after carefully examining the person's constitution, region, season, disease and so on, choosing what suits them.

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

The opposing claim that some substances become like poison when combined is called unproven, contradictory and inconclusive: for some people, those who eat everything, habitually eat before…

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.

Almost all pulses (arhar, chickpea, lentil and others) are described as dry, cooling, astringent and sweet, causing retention of stool and increasing vata; being astringent, they are said…

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…

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

The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and space—are said to cause the manifestation and origin of tastes such as sweet in every substance; when, in their mutual interpenetration, the…