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Chapter 15 counts seventeen throat diseases: rohini of five kinds, kanthashaluka, adhijihvika, valaya, mahalasa, ekavrinda, vrinda, shataghni, gilayu, galavidradhi, galaugha, svaraghna and…

Alasaka is one of the disorders said to follow indigestion, marked by a full abdomen, listlessness, vomiting, upward-moving wind and retention of stool and urine with severe pain.

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…

Svarabheda is damage to the voice from loud recitation, grief, poison, a blow to the throat or loud speaking. It has six kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, tridoshic, fat, blood); the tridoshic and…

Mouth diseases arise from the doshas in seven sites: the two lips, teeth, tongue, gums, throat and palate.

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…

Oleating nasya is said to strengthen the throat, blood, head, shoulders and chest and to sharpen the sight; it is used in head disorders from vata, loose teeth, falling of hair and beard,…

The mouth has seven seats of disease, counted as the two lips, the teeth, tongue, roots of the teeth (gums), throat and palate; dosha-born disorders arise in all of them.

Oleating nasya is said to strengthen the throat, blood, head, shoulders and chest and to sharpen the sight; it is used in head disorders caused by vata, loose teeth, falling of hair and…