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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.

Too small or weak an emetic does not remove all the doshas, causing headache, worsening of the disease and nausea, and a strong patient is made to vomit again; a purgative that fails causes…

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

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.

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

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

For vata colic after dry, cold purifiers, the patient is massaged with oil and sweated, then given an anuvasana enema of oil cooked with a decoction and paste of liquorice (yashti).

Mutrakricchra is presented as eight further kinds of urinary obstruction (ghata read as kricchra, difficult passing) arising from the three doshas, their combination, injury, faeces, gravel…

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

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…

Sharkara (urinary gravel) is described as kapha in the bladder that is dried by heat and broken by vata into sand-like grains; lodged in the urinary passage they cause severe pain, and…

Vishuchika, glossed as cholera (haija) by the commentary, follows indigestion and shows vomiting, thirst, giddiness, colic, fainting, diarrhoea, trembling, yawning, burning, discolouration…

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

An enema of very cold, weak or too little drug causes ayoga: it goes upward and does not come out, with severe bloating and pain, and a sharp enema with suitable purgation is given. A large…

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

A gripping feeling in the heart, craving for sense objects, sleeplessness, tremor, severe colic, retention of stool, cough, hiccup, breathlessness and dryness of the mouth are the…

A vidradhi in which aggravated vata brings breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anorexia, distension, colic, fever, heat, a bound-up feeling and immobility, and whose pus comes out upward, is…

Vata aggravated by unwholesome food and wrong conduct produces an abdominal enlargement with colic, distension, pricking pains and black abdominal veins.

If the wound made in bhagandara becomes very large, faeces, urine and semen escape through it and the tract worsens; so the surgeon must never make it large, for it then tears the anus, and…

The signs given separately for the vata and other fevers appearing together make sannipata fever. When all of them appear with all the complications, the voice is weak, the eyes are…

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…