A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.169

v1.c23.169

The subjects dealt with are: properties and actions of substances with a predominance of earth, water, fire, air and ākāśa (41.4); 399 generalities on medicinal substances and their actions (41.5), 400 relationships between the mahābhautika composition of drugs and their actions (41.6); 401 relationships between the doṣas and the mahābhūtas (41.7–10); relationships between the eight potencies and the mahābhūtas; relationships between the potencies and the doṣas; relationships between the post-digestive tastes and the doṣas; the senses suitable to discriminate particular potencies; the effects enabling a physician to determine the post-digestive taste of a medicinal substance (41.11).