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When suturing is needed it is done with a straight or curved needle. Where many wounds occur at the uru-shira and the abdomen, they are smeared with excellent ghee prepared with joining…

Wounds needing stitches are sewn with a straight or curved needle. Many wounds at the uru-shira and abdomen are smeared with excellent ghee prepared with joining drugs, brought together,…

The introduction calls surgery (śalya) one of the principal limbs of Ayurveda and says Suśrutācārya set it out in a systematic, scientific way; many surgical treatises existed earlier, by…

The verse compares surgery to the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings and lists its eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing for unseen arrows and other foreign…

The commentary lists the measures in order: drying, plastering, affusion, rubbing, heating (sudation), bandaging, scraping, bursting open, dissolving, nasal therapy, drinking, holding…

In baddha and sravi udara an incision is made on the left four fingers below the navel; the intestine is drawn out and inspected, the lodged pebbles, thorns and the like are removed, the…

To remove the many kinds of shalya in the body, instruments, knives, caustics and fire are used. Surgery has eight acts, excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction,…

Like the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings, surgery has eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction, draining and suturing, done with suitable…

Excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction, draining and suturing.