[Duration of oleation therapy] Minimum for three days and maximum for seven days the oleation therapy can be employed as after seven days sneha becomes satmya i.e. habituated.
[Effect of fomentation therapy] In the person who has undergone oleation therapy, fomentation liquefies the adhered morbid material in the fine channels of his body. [Measures to be adopted before vamana and virechana] The persons who is about to undergo vamana should take milk and meat as well as meat-soup of domesticated aquatic and wet-land inhabiting animals as food for the excitation of kapha.
Those who are about to undergo [virechana]] should be given the soup of meat of animals inhabiting in arid area and vegetables-soup added with fat which do not cause aggravation of kapha. [Reasons for vamana and virechana working in opposite ways] Person with aggravated kapha vomits without any difficulty and the person having less aggravated kapha purges well.
If there is less kapha, then emetic drug causes purgation and in aggravation of kapha purgative drug leads to emesis. [Order of administration of emesis and purgation] Oleated person should be given emesis as per given protocol and after emesis systematic dietary regimen with peya (thin gruel) etc. has to be followed.