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Warm water is named as the after-drink when eating dishes made with ghee and the like, or when drinking fats (sneha).

Drinking warm water boiled with dry ginger is said to make coryza ripen quickly.

Powdered sugar and the three pungents mixed in warm water are given as a purgative even to patients otherwise unfit for purgation when they suffer strongly aggravated pitta, heavy worm…

For the disorders of an unsuitable purifying medicine, the patient is made to vomit with warm water mixed with ugra (vacha).

The affected yoni is washed only with warm water boiled with drugs of suitable qualities.

Warm milk mixed with water, drunk, is said to quickly calm vomiting from vata.

For people who drink ghee, hot water is always beneficial, and so is a warm gruel made with a little rice; the text names both as pathya.

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

The commentary prescribes the after-drink by the kind of food: sour gruel (kāñjī; the verse says sauvīra) when eating things made of pulses, buttermilk with boiled rice and the like, warm…

Knowing from pain in the waist and back and the discharge of much kapha with urine that delivery is near, the woman is anointed with oil and bathed with warm water, then laid on her back on…

Severe thirst is overcome with warm water in the vata kind, with cold water in the pitta kind, and with pungent, bitter and astringent drugs in the kapha kind, while causing emesis.

In kapha-type heart disease the text advises emesis with warm water containing trikatu, then purgation with trivrit, sour fruit, rock salt and dry ginger.

For vata aggravated in the stomach the text prescribes emesis preceded by oleation and sudation: the patient is rubbed with lukewarm oil mixed with rock salt, sweated on a warm bed of…

For a patient with severe pain of vata-type heart disease, the text says emesis is induced by giving warm water mixed with long pepper and mustard.

When diarrhoea carries much ama, emesis is induced by having the patient drink warm water mixed with a paste of madanaphala, rock salt and long pepper.

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…

A paste of white mustard, trikatu, triphala and turmeric is stirred into salted, sour, lukewarm water, and this liquid is held in the mouth as a gargle after the throat, ears and forehead…

After the bowel has been cleansed by niruha, the patient is bathed in warm water, given a light meal prepared with dosha-pacifying medicines and then given an anuvasana enema by rule. To…

A powder of asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt, taken with warm water or ghee, is said to destroy kapha.

For drunk ghee that has not been digested, hot water mixed with rock salt is given to drink, or else vomiting is induced with lukewarm water.

Ghee drunk for oleation that has not been digested; the text says it gives rise to anorexia, fever, prameha, insanity, kushtha and fainting, and manages it with hot salted water or emesis…

After emesis with neem decoction, a powder of equal parts of khadira, kutaja, patha, patola leaf, turmeric and the three pungents is taken daily with warm water for kushtha, piles, kitaka…

In kapha-type abhishyanda, well-ground mustard mixed with warm water is used for gargling (gandusha).

A paste of patha, ajamoda, black pepper, amalaki and haritaki is drunk in warm water in the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea.