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Ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa is to be drunk by the consumptive; the commentary names it vrisha ghee or vasa ghee.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

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…

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

The consumptive may drink ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa (called vrisha or vasa ghee), eat cakes (pua) of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice flour, and eat…

Aggravated vata spread through the whole body is to be calmed by asthapana and anuvasana enemas given in due order.

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…

Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…

Sesame oil cooked with twenty parts of bhringaraja juice and a paste of haritaki is said to destroy shvasa and cough quickly, just as triphala decoction taken with ghee does.

Ghee cooked with a paste of ivy gourd, kaseru, bala, atibala, vasa, jivanti, liquorice, sandalwood and sariva, with their decoction and milk, is given to drink in vatarakta with predominant…

For vatarakta with predominant pitta, ghee is cooked with a paste of ivy gourd, kaseru, bala, atibala, vasa, jivanti, liquorice, sandalwood and sariva, with a decoction of the same drugs…

The patient is told to lie comfortably pressing on his right hand so that the stool does not come out quickly; a footnote says an anuvasana that comes straight out is of no benefit and must…

For excessive purgation the patient is quickly sprinkled or bathed with cold water; the verse adds emesis with cold liquorice decoction; asthapana enemas of very cold milk and ghee and…

A severe cutting pain, here a complication of purification with a very dry drug in a weak person with low fire and a soft bowel; the text treats it with milk enemas and a milk diet.

In the eighth month an asthapana is given with oil prepared with bala, mixed with ghee, curd and milk; an anuvasana with oil prepared with the eight sweet drugs is said to be beneficial;…

In raktapitta an asthapana enema is given with buffalo milk and an anuvasana enema with ghee; a powder of blue water lily, lotus and nagakesara is drunk with cold milk and sugarcane juice.

In raktapitta an asthapana (decoction-type) enema is given with buffalo milk and an anuvasana enema with ghee.

Very sharp medicine given to someone thoroughly oleated and sweated with a very soft bowel causes atiyoga. Excessive emesis brings out too much pitta with exhaustion, loss of strength and…

Ghee cooked with kantakari juice, oil cooked with the juices of kasamarda, vasa and bhringaraja, or haritaki taken with salt are each said to destroy cough born of vata.

After the bowel has been cleansed by niruha, the patient is bathed in warm water, given a light meal prepared with dosha-pacifying medicines and then given an anuvasana enema by rule. To…

If the purifying medicine brings out life-giving blood (jivadana), cooling treatment and cold, blood-stopping drugs are used. A dry purifier taken by someone with indigestion and much vata…

For parikartika after a very dry purifier, an asthapana enema of milk mixed with oil, ghee and liquorice is given, then anuvasana enemas of ghee and milk (daily, per the verse), and the…

When an anuvasana enema comes back too soon, it is given again with ghee or oil mixed with shatapushpa (rendered fennel in the commentary) and rock salt.