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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…

An oil is 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.

This oil is to be used in akshepaka, apatanaka and the major vata diseases for nasal therapy, nourishing the head (tarpana), affusion, massage and enemas. An oil called Mithuna, prepared…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil, are to be used for vaginal tarpana (placing a cloth soaked in oil in the vagina), affusion of the body,…

For vata in the head, a cap-shaped sleeve of leather or thick leather-like cloth, open at top and bottom, is fixed on the head, its join sealed with black gram paste, and filled with…

An oil named Mithuna, prepared with the ashtavarga (jivaka, rishabhaka, kakoli, kshirakakoli, meda, mahameda, riddhi, vriddhi), is to be used like the vata-reducing oil for nasal therapy,…

Steam from a closed pot of vata-reducing decoction, led through a bent tube, is applied to the anus of the patient lying down; alternatively, after massage with vata-reducing oil, the…

For the woman after delivery, all the vata-reducing oils told before, or Bala oil (described next), are to be used for vaginal tarpana (a cloth soaked in oil placed in the vagina),…

A leather sleeve open at both ends is fixed on the head, sealed with black gram paste, filled with vata-reducing oil and held for a thousand kshana.

With the vata-reducing measures described, the pregnant woman, the newly delivered woman and the child are to be brought to comfort with great effort, and the child is then to be nourished.

A pot filled with a decoction of vata-reducing drugs is closed and fitted with a bent tube, and the steam coming through it is applied to the anus of the patient lying down; or the body is…

Very hard-to-cure vata, whether in one part or in the whole body, is said to be pacified by enema therapy alone. For vata in the head, a head basti (shirobasti) of vata-reducing oil is held…

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…

Oil obtained by boiling pieces of pilu bark and sesame in much water is collected and cooked with a paste and decoction of vata-reducing drugs, milk and curd; the text says even an atom of…

Pieces of pilu bark and sesame are boiled in plenty of water; the oil that rises is collected and cooked with a paste and decoction of vata-reducing drugs, milk and curd. Named Anu taila,…

After the intestinal enlargement has been declared incurable, bala oil or castor oil with rock salt is given to drink as part of vata-reducing treatment.

Fasting is prescribed when the doshas are strongly aggravated and the body is stiff. A thirsty patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and then…

Seeing strong aggravation of the doshas and a stiff body, fasting is prescribed; if thirsty, a patient with vata-kapha fever drinks warm water and one with pitta fever water boiled and…

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…

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…

The oil-massaged patient sits in a large iron or copper vessel of warm vata-reducing decoction reaching to the chest, or sits in an empty vessel while the decoction is poured over him in a…

By the method of the previous oil, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and…

By the same method, an oil is prepared with vata-reducing drugs such as the roots of nagabala, atibala and kurantaka, shatavari, guduchi, adityaparni, ashvagandha, arka and mashaparni. A…

Ground is burnt with dried vata-reducing trees, sesame oil cooked with their decoction and paste is poured on it and left overnight, and the oil-soaked earth is boiled next day to recover…