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The text names the qualities that count as potency (virya) as unctuous, sharp, slimy, dry, hot, cold, clear and soft.

Semen (śukra), like fat and brain matter, is said to measure one añjali in the body.

Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

Rubbing (the killed mercury) with gold is said to give more vigour (virya) and freedom from disease.

The introduction defines bala as the strength of the body and says it is of three kinds: arising from time (kālaja), inborn (sahaja) and produced by proper means (yuktikṛta).

The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

Ashmari (urinary stone) is described as kapha that hardens in the bladder into a dense stone. Kapha predominates in every stone, but four kinds are named after the leading factor: kapha,…

A foul smell, or even a fragrance, in water is the fault of smell; a distinct taste is the fault of taste; and water that, even drunk in small amount, brings on distension, colic and coryza…

Excellent strength (sattva) arises from the subsidence, destruction, or partial destruction and subsidence of one's karmas (the commentary names the karma that obstructs energy,…