Sixty therapeutic measures

The commentary lists the measures in order: drying, plastering, affusion, rubbing, heating (sudation), bandaging, scraping, bursting open, dissolving, nasal therapy, drinking, holding medicine in the mouth, piercing, suturing, oleation, incision, probing, extraction, bloodletting, pressing, stopping bleeding, decoction, paste, ghee, oil, cooling, instruments, wick, emesis, purgation, dusting powder, fumigation, rasakriya, pressing down, raising up, excision, poultice, joining, ghee, head purgation, applying leaves, hardening, softening, cautery, blackening, uttara basti, anti-poison measures, flesh-building, caustic, whitening, worm-destroying measures, diet regulation and protective rites, fifty-three in all.

Seven of these measures (decoction, wick, ghee, oil, paste, rasakriya and dusting powder) each act in two ways, cleansing (shodhana) and healing (ropana), making fourteen; one form of each is already among the fifty-three, so adding the other seven gives sixty.

A footnote says that although the general word 'disease' is used, these sixty measures are to be understood as meant for overcoming wounds (vrana), since another treatise says a wound has sixty measures.