A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c13.204

v1.c13.204

The subjects dealt with are: the aetiology and pathogenesis of vātaśoṇita; the disease arises when increased (vivṛddha) vāta, being obstructed (āvārita) in its course by (independently) 826 increased blood, corrupts all the blood; its names are vātaśoṇita, khuḍa, 827 vātabalāsa and ādhyavāta 828 (29.3–11); the seats of vātaśoṇita: hands, feet, fingers, and all the joints (sandhi); it begins in hands and feet, whence it spreads over the body (29.12); due to the subtleness (saukṣmya) and ubiquity (sarvasaratva) of vāta, and due to the liquidity (dravatva) and flowing nature (saratva) of blood, it spreads through the vessels (sirāyana) over the body, gets stuck in the joints, and causes, in combination with pitta, etc., various painful sensations (vedanā), hard to endure, in those very joints (29.13–15); 829 the prodromes (29.16–18); 830 the two types of the disease: uttāna, 831 located in skin and muscular tissue, and gambhīra, 832 located in the interior (dhātus); the symptoms of the two types; 833 cases where the symptoms of both types are found (29.19–23); 834 the symptoms of vātaśoṇita with a predominance of vāta, blood, pitta or kapha, and with a predominance of two or three doṣas (29.24–29); 835 degrees of curability (29.30); complications and their influence on the degree of curability (29.31–34),⁸³⁶ treatment⁸³⁷ (29.35–162).⁸³⁸