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Wheat, like barley, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when they are unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

Wheat flour is cooked with sugarcane products (the commentary: sugar) and milk and cooled thoroughly; this pleasing confection is eaten with ghee, and the text says that a man who eats it…

For patients who are obese through kushtha, prameha, udara or sinuses, with swelling, kapha disorders or excess fat, and who wish or need to become lean: a saktu of wheat, renuka seed and…

Wheat flour cooked with sugarcane products (the commentary: sugar) and milk and cooled thoroughly is eaten with ghee; the text says a man could then enjoy sixty women in turn at one time.

Sesame is described as hot, astringent, bitter and sweet (the commentary names astringent and sweet), binding (stopping fluid discharges), kindling digestion and light to digest; applied to…

Sourness and burning are given as the brief signs of aggravated pitta.

Barley, like wheat, is said to resemble sesame but to be cold, strengthening and strongly aphrodisiac; the commentary says that when unripe they are strength-giving and nourishing.

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 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…

The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…

Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…

Rubbing the body with paste is called always good when there is skin discolouration, a kapha or fat disorder, itching, emaciation, affliction by vata, or raktapitta. Rubbing with a paste of…

Alternatively, lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell (shukti), arimeda (glossed as foul-smelling khadira) with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees…

Kapha is said to be aggravated by daily sleep in the daytime, by lack of sexual activity and exercise, by slimy, sour, unctuous (such as ghee and oil), very thick or heavy and salty foods,…

Sweet rice, barley and wheat foods with ghee, jaggery, abundant milk, mung soup, fruits and nourishing vegetables are given to the consumptive.

The patient is to be fed all kinds of sweet rice, barley and wheat and many foods made from them, with ghee, jaggery, plenty of milk, mung soup, strengthening fruits and agreeable…

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…

The physician should feed the patient on priyangu, wild kodo millet, rice flour, foxtail millet, wheat and barley, with astringent, bitter and pungent things, and with pigeon pea, peas and…

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram cooked with milk, ghee and oil are bound with leaves over the place of severe pain in vatarakta.

Powders of wheat, rice, sesame, green gram, lentils and black gram are cooked with milk, ghee and oil and bound with leaves wherever the pain is severe; when the doshas are greatly…

After purification the prameha patient is fed on priyangu, wild kodo millet, rice flour, foxtail millet, wheat and barley, with astringent, bitter and pungent things, and with pigeon pea,…

Oil cooked with the milky trees, hribera and bala is used in vatarakta for pouring, massage and enemas, and mixed with ghee for pastes; wheat, rice, barley, green gram, milk and ghee are…

Lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell, arimeda with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees with their bark are powdered; the powder is dusted on the…

A thick paste of ground green gram, pigeon pea, sesame, peas, lentils, black gram, wheat, rice and barley with very cool ghee, jaggery, sugarcane juice and milk is applied in vatarakta with…