Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.12

c8.12

Adhyāyas : (i) Weights and measures, quality of medicinal stuffs, effect of seasons, diagnosis and prognosis, effect of medicine, anatomy and physiology, embryology, sections and subsections of diseases (rogagaṇanā). (ii) Decoctions, broths, infusions, cold preparations (hima), pastes, powders, pills, electuaries (pāka), medicated ghees (ghṛta), liquors, oxides (bhasma) of gold and other metals and preparations of quicksilver. (iii) The usual methods of cure like Bṛṃhaṇa, Svedana etc. (See § 24). In diagnosis he exhaustively describes Nāḍīparīkṣā, in diseases he distinguishes a greater number of subsections than that in Caraka, Suśruta, Mādhavanidāna, Vṛnda and Cakradatta. Judged by the numerous editions¹² unfortunately deviating rather strongly like MSS from each other, Śārṅgadhara Saṃhitā is still much read.