In case of kaphaja pinasa, apinasa, puti nasya, running nose and itching medicated smoke inhalation therapy and avapeedana/ expressed juice of pungent drugs to be given.
One should inhale the powder of manahshila, vacha, trikatu, vidanga, hingu and guggulu. The powder of pungent fruits should be sniffed / inhaled into the patient’s nose.
In case of thick, fat-like mucous discharge which comes out when the rhinitis is ripened (pakva) should be advised snuff with mustard oil, cow’s urine, bharangi, madana, tarkari, drugs of the surasadi group.
Treatment for diminished/ milder kaphaja pinasa: The patient should be given oleation therapy followed by emetic therapy. Gruel prepared out of tila and black gram by adding milk boiled with emetic drugs should be used in this emetic therapy.