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Udavarta is the upward turning of wind, faeces, urine and the like when natural urges are held back: provoked apana rises into udana. Seven kinds are named by the urge held back, and all…

Holding back a sneeze produces diseases of the nose, mouth, eyes and head. In all seven kinds of udavarta the physician applies the treatment of vata disorders.

Holding back the urge of faeces out of ignorance causes colic, gurgling, breathlessness, constipation, hiccup, faeces coming from the mouth and a severe cutting pain.

Those who want a long life should never hold back an urge that has come. Holding back apana wind at once produces colic, distension, breathlessness, heart disease and hiccup.

Holding back the urge of semen causes swelling of the urinary opening, anus and testicles, difficult passing of urine mixed with semen, and even the serious disease of seminal stone.

Apana displaced from its path may harden and hold the faeces and throw them out through the mouth. When urine is held back it comes out in small amounts, with distension and pain in the…

When vomiting is held back, the doshas that spoil the retained food produce kushtha. Holding back tears of grief or joy produces diseases of the head and eyes. A footnote gives the variant…

When a person holds back the urges of flatus and the others, the provoked apana vayu rises and pervades udana vayu, producing udavarta, which is as dreadful as a snake, lightning, fire or a…

The wise physician examines udavarta by its causes and features and treats it with good medicines; if neglected it quickly takes life.

A man suffering from semen udavarta should be satisfied by a very beautiful woman with pleasing touch and the like; in every other kind of udavarta the physician does what suits it.

A man with semen udavarta should be satisfied by a very beautiful woman with pleasing touch and the like; in every kind of udavarta the physician does whatever suits that case.

The text treats yoni diseases by dosha; an editorial note gives their causes (wrong diet and conduct, vitiated menstrual blood, semen defects, fate) and twenty kinds, five each from vata,…

The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.

Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting,…

Ghee cooked with a decoction and paste of seven drugs and cow-dung juice, licked for liver and spleen enlargement, distension, mahodara, cough, gulma, upward-moving vata and udavarta.

Ghee cooked with six pala of decoction and six pala of paste of pippali, dry ginger, gajapippali, shati, sea salt, chitraka and yavakshara and one prastha of cow-dung juice is the shatpala…

Lists the diseases of the chapter: breathing disorder, cough, distaste, excessive thirst, vomiting, anorexia, hoarseness, udavarta, hiccup, pinasa and others. The physician who knows the…

The editorial note lists five vata types: udavarta (frothy menses passed with difficulty), vandhya (menses lost), vipluta (constant pain), a second vipluta (great pain in intercourse) and…

Those who want a long life should never hold back an urge; doing so causes udavarta.