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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…

Vata is known by roughness, coldness, coarseness, numbness and pricking pain and by dry, cold, rough, mobile and light qualities. It is aggravated by much snow, rain, cold and dry food, is…

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…

With pitta the feet are hot, soft, swollen and burning; with kapha they itch and are heavy and densely swollen; with all three doshas the signs of all three appear.

Gulma is a round lump between the heart and the bladder, of five kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three, and blood in women); it is treated with purgation, dosha-pacifying drugs, enemas, the…

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

Pandu is described in four kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three) sharing pallor and told apart by colour: black, yellow, white or all three. It is treated by purification followed by licked…

Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

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 bowel (koshtha) is said to be of three kinds: soft when pitta predominates, medium when kapha predominates and hard when vata predominates.

The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…

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.

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

Kasa is described as vitiated prana vayu joined with udana leaving the mouth with a cracked-bronze sound. It has five kinds; the kshayaja kind is tridoshic and hard to treat.

The decoction enema is called niruha because it removes all the doshas, and asthapana because it preserves youth (vayasthapana).

The introduction says the gross dhātus appear in increasing order as animal bodies become more complex: some creatures have only rasa and rakta, some rasa, rakta and māṁsa, and some rasa,…

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

Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

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…

Apasmara is named for the loss of memory with deadly fear and fainting; it arises from the three doshas with vata predominant, shows falling, teeth gnashing, phlegm vomiting, upturned eyes…

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.