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Principle
Prognosis (curable, manageable, incurable)
साध्य, याप्य, असाध्य · साध्य
The text says curable diseases are to be cured with medicines and the like, manageable (yapya) diseases kept in check with skilled procedures, and incurable diseases that are hard to…
Topic
Prognosis, and treatment of seed disorders from single doshas
साध्यासाध्य विचार और वातादि दोषजन्य वीर्य रोग की चिकित्सा · साध्यासाध्य विचार और वातादिदोषजन्य वीर्यरोग की चिकित्सा
Disorders of semen and menstrual blood from vata, pitta or kapha singly are curable; the corpse-smelling, pus-like, foul and knotted kinds are difficult to cure, and the faeces-smelling…
Question
What prognosis does the text give for agnirohini?
ग्रंथ अग्निरोहिणी का क्या परिणाम बताता है?
It is to be left untreated; the patient lives fifteen days at most.
Condition
Bleeding disorder (raktapitta)
रक्तपित्त
Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…
Principle
Fatal signs (arishta)
अरिष्ट (मरणसूचक लक्षण) · अरिष्टलक्षण
The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.
Condition
Kushtha (chronic skin diseases)
कुष्ठ (त्वचा रोग) · कुष्ठ
Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…
Principle
Omens (shakuna)
शकुन
A messenger who comes to call the physician very emaciated, deficient or excessively dark, rough-bodied or sick, holding a sword or other weapon or a staff, weeping at twilight and…
Condition
Semen disorders (shukradosha)
शुक्रदोष (वीर्य दोष) · शुक्रदोष
Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…
Topic
Chapter eight: the section on vata disorders
आठवाँ परिच्छेद: वातरोगाधिकार · अथाष्टमः परिच्छेदः / अथ वातरोगाधिकारः
Opening lines of the eighth chapter, the section on vata disorders. The chapter goes on to describe the five vayus, the named vata diseases and vatarakta with their signs and prognosis, and…
Topic
Section on breathing disorders
श्वास रोग अधिकार · अथ श्वासाधिकारः
Opens the section on shvasa (breathing disorder), covering its definition, five types, prognosis and treatment.
Topic
Special features of the present work
प्रकृत ग्रन्थ की विशेषता · प्रकृत ग्रन्थ का वैशिष्ट्य
The closing section of the introduction says the Kalyāṇakāraka is finely composed and its many formulas are new and distinctive; it covers the cause, prodromes, pathogenesis, treatment and…
Session
Treatment of vata diseases
वातरोगचिकित्सित
Opening lines of the eighth chapter, the section on vata disorders. The chapter goes on to describe the five vayus, the named vata diseases and vatarakta with their signs and prognosis, and…