A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.324

v1.c23.324

The subjects are: the treatment of vāta located in the āmāśaya by means of the recipe called ṣaḍdharaṇa (4.3–4);⁴⁸ the treatment of vāta located in the pakvāśaya (4.5), bladder, ears, etc. (4.6), skin, muscular tissue, blood and sirās (4.7), snāyus, junctures and bones (4.8); the treatment of vāta, confined within a bone, by perforating the bone by means of a hand drill (pāṇimantha),⁴⁹ and sucking vāta out through a tube (4.9); the treatment of vāta lodged in the semen (4.10ab); the general treatment of vāta affecting the whole body or one of its limbs (4.10cd–11); combinations of vāta with kapha, pitta and blood should be treated by means of procedures which are contradictory (in pacifying one, but exciting another doṣa) (4.12ab); the treatment of suptivāta (local numbness)⁵⁰ (4.12cd–13ab); dietary items beneficial in vāta diseases (4.10cd–14ab); the preparation of the type of poultice called śālvaṇa;⁵¹ the ways of applying it; special rules when contractures are present (4.14cd–18ab);⁵² emetics and errhines in vāta diseases (4.18cd–19ab); śirobasti and bloodletting as useful measures when vāta has affected the head (4.19cd–20ab); the usefulness of enemas in all kinds of vāta diseases (4.20cd–21ab); a long series of general measures to be employed in the treatment of vāta diseases (4.21cd–26); the preparation of tilvaka-, aśoka- and ramyakaghṛta (4. 27); 53 the preparation of aṇutaila (4.28); 54 the preparation of sahasrapāka and śatapāka medicated oils (4.29); 55 the preparation of pattralavaṇa (4.30), sneha- or kāṇḍalavaṇa (4.31), and kalyāṇakalavaṇa (4.32–33).