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The Bālatantra of Prayogasāra: Children's Health in Ayurveda

A 32-folio Ayurvedic manual of pediatric medicine — diseases unique to infants, age-graded dosing by the gunja, wet-nurse selection, and treatments for the umbilicus, mouth, and anus of a newborn.

A manuscript page on selecting a wet nurse and purifying breast milk, showing dense Devanagari text.

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Folio with decoctions for sannipāta, tertian, and fever-with-cough.
AyurvedaAugust 16, 2026

Vaidyavallabha: A Fever Formulary by a Poet-Physician

Vaidyavallabha: fever formulas, universal remedies, and a physician-poet's lineage preserved in 1850.

Folio on the six seasons and their relationship to the three doshas.
AyurvedaAugust 14, 2026

Eat by the Season: Vaidyasarvasva's Six-Season Regimen

Kāśīrāma's Vaidyasarvasva maps every season to a doṣa — vāta in the rains, pitta in autumn, kapha in spring — with food, drink, and water rules for each.

Folio enumerating the snāyu, tendons and ligaments, of the body.
AyurvedaAugust 12, 2026

Vaidyasarvasva: Counting the Body's 900 Tendons and 210 Joints

Kāśīrāma's Vaidyasarvasva numbers the body — 900 snāyu, 210 sandhi, 700 srotas — and catalogs honey's four varieties and twenty drug qualities.

Folio describing arogyambu, health-giving water prepared by reduction.
AyurvedaAugust 10, 2026

Vaidyarahasya: The 'Health-Giving Water' Remedy

Vaidyarahasya: water therapy, fever fasting, and a 17th-century compendium that absorbed syphilis into Ayurvedic medicine.

Folio listing the spiritual rewards of planting tulasi, bilva and ashvattha.
AyurvedaAugust 08, 2026

Upavanavinoda: A Medieval Guide to Trees and Gardens

Planting for merit and prosperity: trees as dharma, site selection, water-finding, and applying Ayurvedic healing to gardens from a medieval Sanskrit treatise.

Folio on vāta, pitta, and kapha imbalances in diseased trees.
AyurvedaAugust 06, 2026

Healing Trees with Doṣa Logic: Vṛkṣāyurveda in Action

Upavanavinoda treats trees like patients — vāta, pitta, and kapha afflict them too — with cow's-urine pastes, frog-water for barren trees, and ghee for wounds.

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