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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…

Banyan fruit, as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

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…

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

A vata eyelid disease in which the lid loses movement and stays closed.

Vata aggravated by placing the feet unevenly or by overexertion settles in the ankle joint and causes pain there; this is called vatakantaka.

An eye disease from aggravated vata in which pain shifts by turns between the eye, the brow and the eyelids.

The hard, rough, painful vatala yoni is given steam sudation from a pot filled with a decoction of vata-removing drugs.

Oil cooked with a paste and decoction of well-known vata-reducing drugs, jujube and barley water, horse-gram soup, curd, milk, sour fruits and ghee; it is to be used in apatanaka and the…

A poultice cooked with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on, and…

A comfortably warm niruha enema of the paste and decoction of vata-removing drugs with oil, ghee, rock salt and sour drugs, said to bring relief in disorders arising from aggravated vata.

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…

A form of urinary obstruction in which aggravated vata coils with the urine in the bladder, so that urine is passed late, scantily and with pain.

For ear diseases arising from vata, oil cooked with vata-pacifying drugs is poured warm into the ear.

Colic from provoked vata; in chapter 22 it is a complication of purification given with dry, cold drugs to someone not prepared by oleation and sweating.

The vata-destroying group is red and white castor, both nightshades, varuna, aragvadha, agnimantha, chitraka root, shigru, arka and white arka bark, patala, tarkari, devadaru, apamarga,…

A poultice prepared with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on,…

Ghee prepared with the decoction and paste of vata-removing and sweet drugs and with milk is given to drink to a child seized by the Rakshasa graha.

When aggravated vata has produced many disorders, comfortably warm niruha enemas of paste and decoction of vata-removing drugs with oil, ghee, rock salt and sour drugs are said to bring…

After the bath, oil cooked with vata-removing drugs is applied to the body of the Pishacha-seized child.

A form of urinary obstruction in which vata, aggravated by suppressing urine, closes the bladder outlet and causes retention with pain.

Citron juice, rock salt, ghee, sesame oil, woman's milk and nili are rubbed together into a collyrium, fumigated with the three pungents and applied regularly to the eyes in vata-type…

For a patient with severe pain of vata-type heart disease, the text says emesis is induced by giving warm water mixed with long pepper and mustard.

Ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of some two dozen drugs, given after purification by emesis and purgation as soon as a stone appears; it is said to break the great vata-type stone.