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The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…

The thirsty patient drinks water in which heated iron, sand, silver, gold and the like have been quenched, or water cooked with the sweet or cooling groups, or water mixed or cooked with…

For those whose fire has been weakened by these procedures, hot water, boiled-and-cooled water, yavagu, vilepi, yusha, khala unseasoned and seasoned, then food with a little ghee and with…

In kapha-type abhishyanda the patient drinks a little lukewarm water boiled with kushtha, haritaki and musta.

Water cooked with patha, aragvadha pulp, musta and nimba, with pungent drugs such as dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper added, is said to remove kapha vomiting quickly.

Land dominated by the water quality is cool and white, with soft grasses and trees and unctuous, juicy crops; its water is white, clear, sweet, tasty and pleasing.

Watery fluid running from the nose day and night from aggravated kapha; treated with kapha-pacifying drug powders as pressed nasal drops.

Water chestnut (siṅghāḍā; verse śṛṅgāṭaka) is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and space—are said to cause the manifestation and origin of tastes such as sweet in every substance; when, in their mutual interpenetration, the…

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

Ash of barley, patala, bilva, kantakari, sesame, palasha and nut grass is steeped in water and filtered; the alkaline water, with cinnamon, vidanga, tarumushika fruit and cardamom, is drunk…

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…

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.

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

Water falling from the sky and collected before it touches the ground is said to be like nectar.

For thirst the pox patient drinks very cold water or water that has been boiled and cooled.

Flour of rice, wheat and the like mixed with the juice of the dung of donkey, camel, cow, buffalo and horse is eaten, and water strained through the ash of the same dung is used for…

Not all water is fit for bathing and drinking; some is like poison. Ground water in the rainy season is said to cause many severe diseases, while rain water caught from the sky before it…

After purification, a powder of kushtha, nili, kantakari, white punarnava, the three pungents, brihati, nirgundi and arka is drunk with the alkali water of shirisha, musta, rava, apamarga…

A child seized by the Putana graha is sprinkled with water boiled with the ghost-conquering drugs neem, varuna, arka, nili and asphota.

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…

The verse says the patient with indigestion should constantly drink salt water; the commentary specifies rock salt in hot water.