Explore the knowledge

Chhardi is the coming out by the mouth of what was eaten, caused by aggravated doshas or other causes. It has five kinds and is treated by dosha; vomiting with blood, pus and kapha,…

Dry, suitable and light food is wholesome. A gruel with sour substance and rock salt, and warm milk mixed with water, are said to quickly calm vomiting from vata.

When vomiting comes with very strong doshas, emesis and purgation are given with the dosha-destroying drugs described earlier, by a physician who knows the Jain Ayurvedic sequence.

Milk cooked with water boiled with the roots of bilva, agnimantha, both brihatis and tuntuka, given warm with ghee, is said to remove strong vata vomiting.

A soaked preparation (tarpana) of parched rice flour with sugar, cardamom, nagakesara, clove and long pepper is given to vomiting patients who suffer thirst. A powder of jujube kernel and…

Opens the section on chhardi (vomiting): kinds, incurable signs, purification, diet and remedies for each kind.

Water cooked with patha, aragvadha pulp, musta and nimba, with pungent drugs such as the three pungents added, is said to remove kapha vomiting quickly.

A clear amalaki decoction mixed with ghee, sugarcane juice, milk and drugs of the cooling group is said to remove strong pitta vomiting.

A decoction of guduchi not damaged by insects, with sugar, is said to calm even vomiting from all three doshas.

In external vomiting from pregnancy, excess of faeces, worms, disgusting sights or unwholesome food, the physician finds which doshas are increased and treats with the measures that destroy…

When vomiting is held back, the doshas that spoil the retained food produce kushtha. Holding back tears of grief or joy produces diseases of the head and eyes. A footnote gives the variant…

When vomiting comes with very strong doshas, a physician who knows the Jain Ayurvedic sequence gives emesis and purgation with the dosha-destroying drugs already described.

Vomit mixed with blood, pus and kapha, constant complications and repeated fainting.

For patients troubled by vomiting, the skilled physician should arrange tasty, fragrant and well-prepared eatables, meals, drinks and linctuses in the proper way.

Whatever has been eaten coming out by the mouth because of aggravated doshas or other causes is chhardi. It is of five kinds: vataja, pittaja, kaphaja, sannipataja and agantuja (from…

A patient who vomits matter mixed with blood, pus and kapha, is constantly beset by complications and faints again and again should be left by the knowing physician as incurable.

Alasaka is one of the disorders said to follow indigestion, marked by a full abdomen, listlessness, vomiting, upward-moving wind and retention of stool and urine with severe pain.

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.

Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…

The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.

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

Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…

After oleation and sudation the patient sits on a knee-high, steady, soft seat and drinks the lukewarm emetic milk in the morning; vomiting is then encouraged with a finger or a soft stick…

Apatanaka is described as vata seizing the tendons of the hands, fingers, abdomen and heart region, with jerks and shaking, vomiting of phlegm, upturned gaze and inability to move the…