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Fifty-three listed measures plus the second forms of seven measures that act both by cleansing and by healing make sixty; the four procedures are cautery, surgery, caustic and medicine.
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The commentary lists fifty-three measures, from drying, plastering and affusion to diet and protective rites. Decoction, wick, ghee, oil, paste, rasakriya and dusting powder each have a cleansing and a healing form; one form of each is already counted, so the other seven are added to reach sixty. A footnote says these sixty are meant for wounds. For pacifying all diseases the text names agnikarma, shastrakarma, ksharakarma and aushadhakarma.
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- Chapter 20
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- T22
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