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Principle
Yantra (surgical instruments)
यंत्र · यन्त्र
Yantra are the devices used to grasp, pull out and inspect foreign bodies lodged in the body, to apply knife, caustic and fire in piles, fistula and similar diseases, to protect the…
Topic
Only a physician skilled in both is fit to treat
उभयज्ञ वैद्य ही चिकित्सा के योग्य · उभयज्ञ वैद्य ही चिकित्सा के लिए योग्य
The physician who is skilled in both practice and theory, intelligent, and knows all uses of medicines, instruments (yantra), surgical instruments (śastra) and the texts is said to be fit,…
Therapy
Surgery (shastra karma)
शस्त्रकर्म (शल्य क्रिया) · शस्त्रकर्म
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…
Procedure
Preparation before surgery
शस्त्रकर्म की पूर्व तैयारी · शस्त्रकर्म पूर्वकर्म
Before any of the eight surgical actions the physician assembles suitable medicines, knives, instruments (yantra), an operating room, cold and hot water, fire and gentle, affectionate…