A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.100

v1.c23.100

Subjects dealt with are: the thesis that no medicinal substance is either entirely wholesome or unwholesome; the rejection of this thesis, because these substances are of three categories: beneficial, non-beneficial, or of a mixed character (20.3–4); a list of articles of diet which are most wholesome (pathyatama) (20.5); regimen declared to be most wholesome (20.6); articles of diet and regimen of a mixed character (20.7); combinations of substances which become equivalent to poisons (20.8); a second discourse on the thesis that no substance is either entirely wholesome or unwholesome (20.10–12); a list of insalutary combinations of articles of diet (20.13); 215 incompatibilities regarding prepared dishes (20.14); 216 quantitative incompatibilities (20.15); 217 incompatibilities regarding taste (rasa), potency (vīrya) and vipāka (20.16); 218 articles of diet to be avoided are those with an excess of any property (20.17); the harmful effects of incompatible substances and the management of the disorders resulting; circumstances which diminish the bad effects (20.18–22); the properties and actions of winds coming from the east, south, west, and north (20.23–30).