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A minor disease from vata or injury in which the skin at the mouth of the genital organ hangs down and obstructs urine, with much pain; the commentary describes pus collecting and draining…

From aggravated vata or an injury, the skin at the mouth of the genital organ hangs down and obstructs the urine, which passes with great difficulty and much pain; this is vartika. The…

Equal parts of all purifying drugs, pungent drugs and salts ground with cow urine and snuhi latex are made into a suppository (mutravartika), which placed in the anus is said to destroy…

The anus is smeared with sesame oil mixed with rock salt, the suppository is smeared too and inserted carefully; this is said to remove severe distension, worms in the abdomen and retention…

The anus and the suppository are smeared with sesame oil mixed with rock salt and the suppository is inserted carefully; it is said to remove severe distension, abdominal worms and…

A suppository of purifying drugs, pungent drugs and salts ground with cow urine and snuhi latex, placed in the anus against udara.

Vārtāka, which the commentary renders as baḍī kaṭelī or brinjal, is said to give rise to kapha and worm disease and to be tasty and aphrodisiac.

Varāṭikā, glossed in the commentary as कमलकंद (कमोदनी), is listed among tubers said to be tasty, nourishing, poison-countering and wholesome in vata disorders.

हिन्दी: कौडी, कमलकंद · मराठी: कवडी, गुलबास, कमलकर्णिका

हिन्दी: बैगन · मराठी: बांगे

The fifteen complications (vyapad) that the text says can follow errors in emesis and purgation, each described with its signs and treatment.

Fifteen complications (vyapad) of emesis and purgation are named, arising from errors of the physician, patient or attendant: the emetic going down or the purgative going up; medicine…

Fifteen: the emetic going down or the purgative going up, residual medicine, digested medicine, scanty removal, excessive removal, vata colic, jivadana, ayoga, atiyoga, parisrava,…