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Principle
Vipaka (post-digestive effect)
विपाक
Among the views of one-sided theorists that the text calls faulty is the statement that the vipaka of a substance is of three kinds: sweet, sour and pungent.
Question
What does the hitahita chapter, quoting Sushruta, say about substance, taste, potency and vipaka?
हिताहिताध्याय सुश्रुत को उद्धृत करते हुए द्रव्य, रस, वीर्य और विपाक के बारे में क्या कहता है?
There is no vipaka without potency, no potency without taste and no taste without substance; substance is the most important, because taste, potency and vipaka depend on it, and the eight…
Topic
Oil cooked a thousand times (Sahasra-vipaka taila)
सहस्र विपाक तैल
Ground is burnt with dried vata-reducing trees, sesame oil cooked with their decoction and paste is poured on it and left overnight, and the oil-soaked earth is boiled next day to recover…
Formulation
Sahasra-vipaka oil (oil cooked a thousand times)
सहस्र विपाक तैल · सहस्रविपाक तैल
Sesame oil cooked with decoctions and pastes of all vata-reducing trees, passed through burnt earth and recovered, then cooked a thousand times with sour liquids, curd, milk and…
Glossary entry
दीपक
अजमायन
हिन्दी: अजमायन, मोरशिखा · मराठी: ओवा, आजमोदा, जिरें
Glossary entry
दीप्यक
अजमायन
हिन्दी: अजमायन, रुद्रजटा, अजमोदा · मराठी: ओंवा, रक्तचिवक, कलौंजी जीरे, पीतवर्ण जीरें, ईडनिंबू, निंबू, अजमोद, तमर, मोरशेंडी, केशर, ससाणा
Principle
Rasa panchaka (five pharmacological attributes)
रस पंचक · रसपञ्चक
The text calls faulty the one-sided views of those who see substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect as separate: if taste, potency and vipaka were different from the substance…
Principle
Substances (dravya)
द्रव्य
The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…
Principle
Agni (digestive fire)
अग्नि (जठराग्नि) · जठराग्नि
The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…
Principle
Dhatus (seven body tissues)
धातु (सप्त धातु) · सप्तधातु
The introduction says the gross dhātus appear in increasing order as animal bodies become more complex: some creatures have only rasa and rakta, some rasa, rakta and māṁsa, and some rasa,…
Principle
The physician (vaidya)
वैद्य (चिकित्सक) · वैद्य
The editor reports the author's explanation of the word vaidya (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the characteristics of the soul (jīva) and all other…
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…
Principle
Syadvada (Jain doctrine of conditional, many-sided truth)
स्याद्वाद
The Jain doctrine that a thing has many aspects and can be described only relatively; the hitahita chapter uses it to argue that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect.
Topic
Hindi rendering of the chapter on the wholesome and the unwholesome
हिताहिताध्याय का भावानुवाद
A Hindi free translation of the Sanskrit hitahita discourse. It argues from syadvada that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect and that substance, taste, potency and…