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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…

Eating burning, pungent, very hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding on chariots, horses, elephants, camels and the like burn the blood and provoke vata; the burnt blood…

Vatarakta in which the swelling bursts and blood and fluid flow from it and from the knee is declared incurable by the Jinas; within the first year it is curable and after that only…

Opens the section on the treatment of vatarakta, which gives pastes, medicated ghee and milks, oil, diet and a closing summary.

One who regularly takes purgation, bloodletting and enemas, keeps poultices applied and takes cool food and drink of sweet, astringent and bitter taste overcomes vatarakta and raktapitta.…

The author announces that he will now describe briefly the treatment of vatarakta, in which blood corrupted by vata and the other doshas settles in the feet and whose kinds and signs were…

Wheat, rice, barley, green gram, milk and ghee are named as wholesome food and drink in vatarakta.

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.

Blood is counted along with the doshas and called a dosha; because it is vitiated by vāta and the other vitiators, the same blood is also called a tissue (dhātu).

Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated…

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…

A very painful, long swelling of the knee arising from vatarakta, shaped like a jackal's head, hence the name.

From vatarakta a very painful, long swelling may form at the knee resembling a jackal's head (a footnote glosses the name), called kroshtukashirsha; vatarakta likewise gives rise to several…

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…

Opening lines of the eighth chapter, the section on vata disorders. The chapter goes on to describe the five vayus, the named vata diseases and vatarakta with their signs and prognosis, and…

Opening of the ninth chapter, on pitta disorders: the causes, nature and signs of aggravated pitta and its cooling and purifying treatment, followed by bleeding disorder, abnormal uterine…

Goat milk cooked with a decoction of liquorice and cooled, mixed with liquorice paste, sugar and ghee and drunk, is said soon to destroy vatarakta, raktapitta and all pitta disorders.

Goat milk cooked with a liquorice decoction and cooled, with liquorice paste, sugar and ghee, is drunk to destroy vatarakta, raktapitta and many pitta disorders.

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram cooked with milk, ghee and oil are bound with leaves over the place of severe pain in vatarakta.

Kundru (bimba) is listed among greens described as binding the stool and producing vata.

Jambu, kadamba, both nightshades, neem, banana, bimbi, lotus, blue water lily, pippalimula and prishniparni, ground in ghee, sugarcane juice and milk, are applied cold in vatarakta with…

In vatarakta with strong vata, jambu, kadamba, both nightshades, neem, banana, ivy gourd (bimbi), lotus, blue water lily, pippalimula and prishniparni are ground in ghee, sugarcane juice…

Kaśeru is listed with lotus tuber, the blue water lily, the nālī tuber and vidārī as tubers that are heavy to digest, cold, kapha-increasing, good and sweet, suitable in raktapitta, helping…