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Sugarcane juice and foods made with it are listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Sugarcane juice mixed with sugar, drunk regularly, is said to remove pox with blisters.

Cited as an example of poison used as medicine in poison-induced udara: pieces of sugarcane are made to be bitten by a black snake and then eaten.

A clear amalaki decoction with ghee, sugarcane juice, milk and drugs of the cooling group is said to remove strong pitta vomiting.

Liquorice ground in sugarcane juice is said to destroy pitta cough quickly.

For excessive emesis the patient is bathed with cold water and then purged with sugarcane juice and drugs of cooling quality.

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

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…

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.

Murchha (fainting) is described as the doshas covering the channels of consciousness so that the patient sees darkness and falls; it is of six kinds (blood, poison, vata, pitta, kapha,…

Jaggery, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

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…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

A footnote says vāta is aggravated in the rainy season by the nature of the season, so enema therapy is given then.

Sugar, named by the commentary among the products of sugarcane, is listed among the causes of kapha aggravation.

Summer is placed in Jyeṣṭha and Āṣāḍha; the editor's second scheme puts it in Vaiśākha and Jyeṣṭha, and within each day midday corresponds to summer.

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…

Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…

A patient with urinary disease drinks amalaki juice, one kuduba (16 tola), alone or mixed with sugarcane juice.

A cold infusion or decoction of amla, nut grass, hribera and coriander with plenty of sugarcane juice, drunk in the morning with triphala and ghee, is said by the experts to pacify all…

The earth that birds eat every day is collected and mixed with milk, ghee and sugarcane juice, and a man wearing faultless (clean) dress eats it. The text says he gains strength that can…

Jambu, kadamba, both nightshades, neem, banana, bimbi, lotus, blue water lily, pippalimula and prishniparni, ground in ghee, sugarcane juice and milk, are applied cold in vatarakta with…

Very cold water of kasha grass, sugarcane, sandalwood and sariva with good sugar, mixed with a paste of kankola, nutmeg, nagakesara and clove, is drunk to remove the heat produced by pitta.