A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.326

v1.c23.326

Its subjects are: vātaśoṇita as a single disease, by some authorities incorrectly described as of two kinds, called uttāna (superficial) and avagāḍha (deep); this distinction is to be rejected, because vātaśoṇita, in the same way as kuṣṭha, begins by affecting the superficial constituents of the body and gradually invades the deeper ones (5. 3); 56 the aetiology, pathogenesis, chief symptoms, and prodromes of vātarakta (= vātaśoṇita); 57 if neglected, the disease progresses and leads to disability (vaikalya) (5.4); persons predisposed to the disease (5.5); patients to be accepted for treatment and complications to be regarded as contra-indications (5.6); 58 the treatment of vātarakta with a predominance of vāta (5.7), pitta (5.8), blood (5.9), kapha (5.10), and a combination of doṣas (5.11); 59 the general treatment of vātarakta (5.12); 60 prescriptions against the pains occurring in vātarakta (5.13); 61 the mentioned treatments may easily cure vātarakta of recent origin and be alleviating in chronic cases (5.14); things beneficial (5. 15–16) and harmful (5.17) to patients with vātarakta; conditions making the disease called apatānaka amenable to treatment; the treatment of apatānaka (5.18); 62 conditions making a patient with pakṣāghāta 63 acceptable for treatment; the description of the treatment procedures, 64 to be continued for a period of three to four months (5.19); manyāstambha 65 should be treated in the same way as pakṣāghāta; errhines which remove vāta and kapha, and dry methods of sudation (rūkṣasveda), are particularly useful (5.20); the treatment of apatantraka (5.21) 66 and ardita (5.22); 67 vāta diseases in which phlebotomy is indicated (5.23); the treatment of karṇaśūla (otalgia) (5.24); 68 tūnī 69 and pratūnī 70 (5.25), ādhmāna 71 and pratyādhmāna 72 (5.26), aṣṭhīlā 73 and pratyaṣṭhīlā 74 should be treated in the same way as gulma and internal abscesses (5.27); the preparation of hiṅgvādicūrṇa and its indications (5.28); 75 a disease caused by vāta singly, by vāta in combination with one or more doṣas, or by vāta covered (āvṛta) by one of the dhātus, should be recognized by means of its signs and their due consideration (ūhā) (5.29); 76 a painful, firm swelling, cold to the touch, is caused by a combination of vāta and medas (fatty tissue); it should be treated like a local swelling (śotha) (5.30); 77 the disease called ūrustambha or ādhyavāta, 78 which arises when vāta, covered by kapha and medas, becomes lodged in the thighs; the symptoms of this disease (5.31–33ab); its treatment (5.33cd–39); 79 the properties, actions, uses, and indications of guggulu (5.40–45). 80