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Which treatments does chapter 12 forbid for children's diseases?

बारहवाँ परिच्छेद बालकों के रोगों में कौन सी चिकित्साएँ वर्जित बताता है?

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Cautery, purgation, caustic alkali, surgery, emesis and the like; mild measures are used instead.

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Verse 82 says children's diseases are not to be treated with these harsh measures and that curable diseases are treated with suitably mild ones; verse 81 adds that children receive the same medicines as adults by dosha, with the dose fitted to age, strength and dosha.

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Chapter 12
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T10
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