The persons requiring such therapy are those suffering from wasting of the body, wounded, consumptive, emaciated, old, weak, weary of long journeys, and excessively indulged in sexual intercourse, alcohol addiction, and for all persons in the summer season.
Light to digest soup made up of meat of carnivorous animals and birds is nourishing to persons who have been weakened due to diseases such as consumption, piles, assimilation disorders (grahani dosha), or have been wasted by other (similar) diseases.
कटुतिक्तकषायाणां सेवनं स्त्रीष्वसंयमः| खलिपिण्याकतक्राणां मध्वादीनां च रूक्षणम् ||२९||
[Rukshana (drying) therapy] Regular use of substances having pungent, bitter and astringent tastes, indulgence in women, use of oil-cakes of mustard and tila(sesame), buttermilk, honey and similar things tend to induce dryness.
Rukshana is indicated in diseases caused by blocking of bodily channels by excess discharges or in cases of greater morbidity of dosha diseases of vital organs, in stiffening of thighs (urustambha), and in similar conditions.