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Kheer cooked from milk mixed with shilavalka powder, eaten constantly, is said to make even a very weak person very strong within a month.

Impotence is said to arise from injury to a vital point, depletion of semen, disease of the penis and, in the verse, from birth; impotence from semen depletion is called curable and is…

A complication named in the text for purgation and for enemas, in which pitta and kapha keep draining in small amounts with weakness and fatigue.

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…

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.

The introduction says nidāna, pūrvarūpa (prodromal signs), rūpa (signs), upaśaya and saṁprāpti are called the five means of diagnosis (nidāna-pañcaka), and that diseases are to be examined…

Upadamsha is described as a swelling arising on the penis, treated like the kinds of scrotal enlargement according to dosha; a footnote lists its causes and five kinds, and verse 5 gives…

Kamala is said to follow when, soon after fever, burning or pandu subside, the person takes much sour and other unwholesome food, aggravating pitta; it whitens (or yellows) the body with…

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.

Sharkara (urinary gravel) is described as kapha in the bladder that is dried by heat and broken by vata into sand-like grains; lodged in the urinary passage they cause severe pain, and…

When someone whose fever, burning, pandu and similar illnesses have just subsided soon takes much sour and other unwholesome food and conduct, pitta is aggravated, turns the body white (or…

Liquid food suits severe thirst, a dry mouth and body and weakness; dry food suits prameha, mahodara, eye and abdominal disorders, injury and belching; one light meal a day is for weak fire…

Digestive, nourishing and aphrodisiac powders are mixed with a morsel (grasa) for those with weak fire, depleted semen or weakness; for cough and dyspnoea, emetic medicines, medicated…

Patients with grave marma involvement, pains that vanish suddenly without treatment, changed nature, black teeth, black hard tongue and lips, stiff, sunken, red or protruding eyes,…

Before raktapitta appears, the abdomen feels heavy, there is burning in the body, a feeling as if smoke rises from the throat, loss of taste, weakness and a smell of blood in the breath.…

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…

Dosha types show the signs of their dosha and the combined type all three; injury to the urinary channels gives vata-like signs; retained stool aggravates vata with colic and distension;…

An enema of very sharp, sour and salty drugs causes the great disease parisrava, with marked weakness and bodily fatigue and a discharge of pitta.

A small or mild purgative given to a person with a dry, hard bowel and many doshas cannot expel them and only stirs them up. The text says this brings weakness, loss of taste, fatigue and…

The gochandana has its underside divided in two like a cow's horns or testicles, is always moist, thick-mouthed and fiercely poisonous. Bites of poisonous leeches cause severe swelling,…

Ten times for taking medicine are named: without food (nirbhakta), before the meal (pragbhakta), after the meal (urdhvabhakta), in the middle of the meal (madhyabhakta), between meals…

The twelve kinds of diet are listed as cold, hot, unctuous, dry, liquid, solid, once a day, twice a day, medicated, reduced in quantity, dosha-pacifying and strengthening (vrishya) food.

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…