Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.52

v1.c6.s2.t4.52

*Siddhasàra* is the selection of medical prescriptions featuring medical treatise. It carefully collects those effective prescriptions from a range of medical books and is divided into 31 chapters in accordance with the newest methods of edition and arrangement at its time. The first four chapters of which mainly focus on traditional theories, thus making the book a great Canon of Medicine. The second and third chapters talk about the nature and effect of a variety of drugs, which is similar to the herbalism writings of the Chinese traditional medicine. From the fifth to the 30th chapter, based on different symptoms, the causes and categories of various diseases and the prescriptions in particular are presented. The last chapter can be regarded as a supplementary instruction of different medical methods which allows the book to be a giant medical masterpiece. The whole book introduces the treatment of a wide variety of diseases concerning internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics and gynecology and so on.