सद्यःक्षीणो हि सद्यो वै तर्पणेनोपचीयते| नर्ते सन्तर्पणाभ्यासाच्चिरक्षीणस्तु पुष्यति ||३१||
A person suffering from acute and drastic weight-loss should be treated with a regimen that nourishes instantly, but one suffering from a chronic type of emaciation requires long term consumption of nourishments.
Some of the critical factors for deciding a course of treatment of emaciation in chronic patients include: body constitution, power of digestion, predominant dosha, form of medicine, dose, and season and time of administration (of the therapy).
हिता मांसरसास्तस्मै पयांसि च घृतानि च| स्नानानि बस्तयोऽभ्यङ्गास्तर्पणास्तर्पणाश्च ये ||३३||
For this purpose, (of santarpana), soups made out of flesh, milk, various ghee preparations (clarified butter), along with activities such as bath, oil massage, and medicated enema (processed with santarpana medicines) are advocated for nourishment.
For these patients suffering from continuous jwara (fever like conditions), cough, emaciation, dysuria, thirst and upward movement of vata, the following nourishing drinks are prescribed.
Mantha (thin gruel) prepared from sugar, pippali (Pipper longum), oil, ghee, and honey - in equal quantities added with double the quantity of saktu (roasted corn flour) is considered an aphrodisiac and is useful in such conditions (as mentioned in above verse).