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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.

Summer: food rich in milk and ghee, cold drinks, jaggery and sugarcane, and well water. Rains: mainly bitter and astringent food with a little pungent, milk, sugarcane and their products,…

In summer, food with plenty of milk and ghee is said to be best and cold drinks useful; eating jaggery and sugarcane is beneficial and well water is suitable for drinking.

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

The six seasons, two months each, are listed from Caitra: vasanta (also called madhu, when flowers and fruits flourish) in Caitra and Vaiśākha, grīṣma in Jyeṣṭha and Āṣāḍha, varṣā in…

The kalpa of shilajatu is said to be of many kinds; the author gives it with a few variants.

The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…

The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…

Kapha gathered in hemanta is aggravated in spring, vata gathered in summer in prāvṛṭ, and pitta gathered in the rains in autumn; at aggravation they are to be removed, vata by enema, pitta…

Fire is called sharper than caustic, curing from the root diseases that kshara, medicine or knife cannot cure. It is not applied to ligaments, bones and joints; the burning means are bone,…

Six seasons of two months each from Caitra: spring (vasanta, also called madhu, when flowers and fruits flourish) in Caitra–Vaiśākha, summer in Jyeṣṭha–Āṣāḍha, the rains in…

In summer the sun-scorched mountains exude a red juice like lac from their cracked rocks; tin, lead, iron, copper, silver and gold are named as its six sources.

The author now gives the shilajatu kalpa together with its origin and nature. In summer the mountains, scorched by the fire-like rays of the sun, exude from the hard, cracked rocks of their…

Cautery is avoided in summer and autumn; in an urgent disease curable only by fire it is done after measures opposing the season, such as cool coverings, cool food, a cool place and cool…

Each day runs through the six seasons as the year does: forenoon is spring, midday summer, afternoon or evening prāvṛṭ, the first part of the night the rains, midnight autumn and the…

Exercise is to be avoided by those with raktapitta, breathlessness, cough, hiccup, wounds or fever, by one who is sweating, one weakened by excess sexual intercourse and a child; the verse…