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Yusha is one part of washed pulse cooked in eighteen parts of water until a quarter remains, then strained through cloth; that is, the water of the pulse.

Akritayusha is soup of pulse alone, without dry ginger and the other additions.

Kritayusha is pulse soup prepared with dry ginger, black pepper, long pepper, ghee and rock salt.

Once intoxication, burning and the doshas have settled after emesis, the tired patient takes no food or drink that day; the next day a small amount of warm vilepi or yusha cooked with…

After purification the digestive fire is usually weak and must be built up step by step. Purification is of three grades (best, medium, least); after a warm bath, when hungry, the person is…

Green gram soup is said to suit, and benefit, people whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, whose bodies are wasted by wounds, who are very thirsty,…

Soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee, and sour fruits, are given as a light meal once a day, and the food is then increased step by step until full meals are eaten.

Sharp foods such as mustard and soups made of kala (glossed jujube), pea, pigeon pea and green gram are said to make coryza ripen quickly.

The soup (sūpa) of these pulses, pigeon pea and green gram, is said to be especially wholesome; the commentary adds that their dāl is especially beneficial in fever and diarrhoea.