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The remaining subjects of the chapter are: the importance of purificatory (śodhana) therapies (4.25–27); the treatment of patients emaciated by purificatory measures (bheṣajakṣapita) (4.28–30); the various types of āgantu diseases: those caused by malevolent beings (bhūta), poisonous substances (viṣa), wind,39 fire, wounds (kṣata), fractures (bhaṅga), passions (rāga), hatred (dveṣa), fear (bhaya), etc. (4.31);40 general rules for the prevention of nija and āgantu diseases, and the cure of diseases that have already arisen (4.32–34);41 the season in which doṣas accumulated in a particular season should be expelled by means of purificatory measures (4.35); the conduct leading to freedom from disease (4.36).