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Procedure
External treatment
बाह्य चिकित्सा · बाह्यचिकित्सा
External treatment, which the text calls only an auxiliary cause of the calming of disease (dharma being the internal cause) and which is the subject of the rest of the book. Following…
Topic
External treatment
बाह्य चिकित्सा · बाह्यचिकित्सा
Following substance, place, time and condition (dravya, kṣetra, kāla, bhāva), the suitable procedures such as oleation, sudation, emesis and purgation, and in diseases that call for them…
Question
Into which two kinds does the text divide treatment, and what does external treatment consist of?
ग्रंथ चिकित्सा को किन दो भेदों में बाँटता है और बाह्य चिकित्सा में क्या आता है?
Internal treatment, which is dharma, and external treatment, which is only an auxiliary cause; external treatment means oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and, where suitable, excision…
Topic
External and internal treatment for calming disease
रोग शांति के लिए बाह्य और अभ्यंतर चिकित्सा · रोगोपशमनार्थ बाह्याभ्यंतर चिकित्सा
Dharma is said to be the internal cause of the calming of disease and external treatment only an auxiliary cause, which is what this book goes on to describe; so all treatment is of two…
Topic
Treatment of external vidradhi
बाह्य विद्रधि की चिकित्सा · बाह्यविद्रधि चिकित्सा
An external vidradhi is treated according to the doshas as described for the unripe, ripening and ripe stages of swelling, and is cleansed and healed with bloodletting, pastes, bandaging…
Procedure
Treatment procedures for external vidradhi
बाह्य विद्रधि की चिकित्सा
External vidradhi is treated according to the doshas in the way described for the unripe, ripening and ripe stages of swelling, and is cleansed and healed with bloodletting, pastes,…
Topic
Treatment of vomiting from external causes
आगन्तुज छर्दि की चिकित्सा · आगन्तुजछर्दि चिकित्सा
In external vomiting from pregnancy, excess of faeces, worms, disgusting sights or unwholesome food, the physician finds which doshas are increased and treats with the measures that destroy…
Principle
Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
Principle
Ayurveda (science of life)
आयुर्वेद
The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…
Principle
Causes of disease (nidana)
निदान (रोग का कारण) · निदान
The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…
Condition
Eye disorders (netraroga)
नेत्ररोग (आंख के रोग) · नेत्ररोग
The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.
Principle
Stages of dosha disturbance (accumulation, aggravation, spread)
दोषों का संचय, प्रकोप और प्रसर · संचय
The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…
Condition
Swelling and oedema (shotha)
शोथ (सूजन) · शोथ
Verses 3 and 4 describe swelling as local or general, give a poor outlook for spreading swelling with wasting of the other limbs, and name the pot-shaped, mouthless and opened forms…
Condition
Throat disorders (kantharoga)
कंठरोग (गले के रोग) · कण्ठरोग
Chapter 15 counts seventeen throat diseases: rohini of five kinds, kanthashaluka, adhijihvika, valaya, mahalasa, ekavrinda, vrinda, shataghni, gilayu, galavidradhi, galaugha, svaraghna and…
Principle
Tridosha (three doshas)
त्रिदोष सिद्धांत · त्रिदोष
The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…
Formulation
Karanja, langali and shirisha paste for dushyodara
करंजादि लेप (दूष्योदर में)
An external paste of karanja, langali and shirisha for dushyodara, used alongside prompt treatment with drugs that pacify the three doshas.
Topic
Signs of the unripe stage of swelling
शोथ की आम अवस्था के लक्षण · शोथ की आमावस्था के लक्षण
When the doshas in a swelling are very strong, when the treatment used to calm it is wrong, or when no external or internal treatment is given, it does not subside but turns towards…
Topic
Summary rule for treating all diseases
सब रोगों की चिकित्सा का संग्रह · सर्वरोगचिकित्सा संग्रह
Vata, pitta and kapha, singly, in pairs or all together, or with blood, aggravated by their own causes and lodged in the various parts of the body, produce bodily, mental, external…
Topic
The chief causes of aggravation and calming of the doshas
दोषों के प्रकोप और उपशम के प्रधान कारण · दोष प्रकोपोपशम के प्रधान कारण
The doshas are aggravated or calmed through external and internal causes, through the rising (udaya) or premature ripening (udīraṇā) of karma, and through the fourfold set of substance,…