A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.204

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Chapter one is devoted to vāta diseases (vātavyādhi).¹ The subjects dealt with are: Suśruta’s questioning of Dhanvantari on the seats and actions of vāta in a normal and abnormal state and the diseases caused by it (1.3–4); the nature of vāta, called Bhagavant Svayambhū (1.5–7ab);² the qualities, actions and seats of vāta (1.7cd–9ab);³ the functions of vāta when in a normal state (1.9cd–10); the five types of vāta (1.11–12); the seats and actions of and the disorders caused by prāṇa, udāna, samāna, vyāna and apāna (1.13–21ab);⁴ disorders caused by excited vāta when staying in the āmāśaya (1.22cd–23ab),⁵ pakvāśaya (1.23cd–24ab),⁶ ears (and other sense organs) (1.24cd),⁷ skin (1.25),⁸ blood, muscular tissue, fatty tissue, sirās, snāyus, junctures (sandhi), bones, bone marrow, and semen (1.26–29);⁹ disorders caused by a generalized excitation of vāta (1.30–31ab); disorders caused by an association of vāta with pitta, kapha, or blood (1.31cd–34ab);¹⁰ disorders caused when prāṇa, udāna, samāna, apāna, or vyāna are covered (āvṛta) by pitta or kapha (1.34cd–39);¹¹ the aetiology and pathogenesis of vātarakta,¹² and the occurrence of related disorders caused by the corruption of blood (rakta) by pitta and kapha (1.40–44);¹³ the symptoms of corruption of blood by vāta, pitta, kapha, or all three doṣas together (1.45–46);¹⁴ the prodromes of vātarakta (1.47);¹⁵ its way of spreading over the body (1.48); prognostic features of vātarakta (1.49–50ab);¹⁶ descriptions of ākṣepaka (1.50cd–51),¹⁷ apatānaka¹⁸ and daṇḍāpatānaka¹⁹ (1.52–53ab), hanugraha (1.53cd),²⁰ dhanuḥstambha²¹ and its two varieties: ābhyantarāyāma²² and bāhyāyāma²³ (1.54–57ab); prognostic features of dhanuḥstambha (1.57cd); the causes of ākṣepaka (1.58); incurable types of apatānaka (1.59); the pathogenesis and symptoms of pakṣāghāta (1.60–62);²⁴ degrees of curability, etc., of pakṣāghāta (1.63);²⁵ the pathogenesis and symptoms of manyāstambha (1.67);²⁷ the aetiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, prodromes and prognosis of ardita (1.68–73);²⁸ the pathogenesis and symptoms of gṛdhrasī (1.74),²⁹ viśvācī (1.75),³⁰ kroṣṭukaśiras (1.76),³¹ khañjatva³² and paṅgutva,³³ kalāyakhañjatva (1.78),³⁴ vāta-kaṇṭaka (1.79),³⁵ pādadāha (1.80),³⁶ pādaharṣa (1.81),³⁷ avabāhuka (1.82),³⁸ bādhirya (1.83),³⁹ karṇaśūla (1.84),⁴⁰ mūkatva,⁴¹ miṇmiṇatva⁴² and gaḍgadatva⁴³ (1.85), tūnī (1.86),⁴⁴ pratitūnī (1.87),⁴⁵ ādhmāna,⁴⁶ (1.88) pratyādhmāna (1.89),⁴⁷ vātaṣṭhīlā (1.90),⁴⁸ and pratyaṣṭhīlā (1.91).⁴⁹