The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.68

c15.68

The tenth chapter, *Chāyādhyāya* “chapter of the shadow”, is named after its first word *anuchāyā* . . . but only the first two verses refer to the shadow. The remainder describes the symptoms of incurability in the course of the diseases provoking haemorrhage (*raktapitta*), those of cough (*kāsa*) and those of dyspnoea (*śvāsa*) and other hopeless morbid tables.