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Tamarind leaves are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

Guḍūcī shoots (गुर्च in the commentary; the verse word is unclear) are listed among sprout vegetables described as cold, kapha-producing, strongly aphrodisiac, heavy, pitta-calming,…

Loss of touch sensation is among the signs of aggravated kapha.

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…

Quoted as part of the comparison of medicine with religious discipline: people who have undergone oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation, oil and decoction enemas, head purgation or…

Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

Tendū fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Very sharp, fearsome instruments used in bloodletting are said to bring great comfort; quoting Sushruta (the chapter and verse numbers are garbled), the text gives the signs of blood…

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

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,…

Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.

Chhardi is the coming out by the mouth of what was eaten, caused by aggravated doshas or other causes. It has five kinds and is treated by dosha; vomiting with blood, pus and kapha,…

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.

Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…

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,…

Medicine brought with compassion, after worship, for treating brahmins, holy men, sages and distinguished people is said to be meritorious; quoting the Paitamaha, the text says that after…

Disorder from sweating applied too intensely: the text says it aggravates pitta and blood and causes blisters, giddiness, mada, fever, burning and fainting, and is treated with very cooling…

Seeing strong aggravation of the doshas and a stiff body, fasting is prescribed; if thirsty, a patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and…

Bandhana (upanaha) sweating is a poultice such as payasa cooked with heating drugs, covered with leaves or cloth and tied on. Drava sweating is seating the patient in a large vessel such as…

Poisoned food reaching the stomach (hṛdaya, explained as the āmāśaya) causes heavy salivation, fainting, burning, pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, dullness and bloating. Reaching the intestines…

Ushma sweating is fomenting the patient, covered with a wet cloth, over heated bricks, stones or coarse grains (kudhanya) sprinkled with sour gruel or other liquids. Like tapa sweating it…

Heat and steam sweating chiefly pacify kapha, poultice sweating destroys vata, and liquid sweating suits vata or kapha mixed with raktapitta. Sweating helps only an oleated body, so it is…

Here adhmana is presented as a vata disease of the abdomen: the colon gurgles, there is severe pain and the belly swells like a bag full of air.