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Weak digestive fire is said to arise from aggravated kapha.

Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

Aggravated vata spread through the whole body is to be calmed by asthapana and anuvasana enemas given in due order.

The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…

Emesis is judged proper when first the medicine, then kapha and then pitta are expelled and the doshas and the disease subside.

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…

Properly performed emesis is said to remove delirious talk, heaviness of the body, hoarseness, excessive sleep, bad taste in the mouth, weak digestion, foul breath, burning, heart disease,…

A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…

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…

Diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying are said not to arise without aggravated pitta.

All mahodaras show burning, fainting, a full abdomen, weak digestion, retention of wind and faeces, swelling, emaciation and body pain.

Aggravated doshas spread singly, in pairs, all three together, or with blood, fifteen patterns in all, lodge in a site where the channels are faulty and cause the diseases of that site (in…

Ajirna is food that is not digested, in three kinds (ama, vidagdha, vishtabdha); constant eating of many foods leads to it and to alasaka, vilambika and vishuchika. It is treated with…

A salt made by burning powdered vata-reducing drugs with rock salt, boiling the product with six parts of water, straining it and cooking the liquid with equal parts of pungent spices until…

About twenty drugs, among them mahanimba, kutaja, arka, snuhi, apamarga, chitraka, palasha, shigru, both nightshades, vasa, patala, bilva, both karanjas, chavya, bhallataka and vaijayanti,…

Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.

The potable kind of kshara is said to be used in compound poisoning (gara), abdominal enlargement, gulma, weak digestion, urinary stone and gravel, various nodules, piles, severe internal…

Even when an anuvasana enema is used, no fault such as weak digestion arises in food and digestion, so the great sages call it the principal enema. The author announces that he will…

Prodromes listed: much thick phlegm, breathlessness, weakness of all limbs, vomiting, dry throat, weak digestion, intoxication, whiteness of the eyes, excessive sleep and rhinitis. Dreams…