A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.364

v1.c23.364

The subjects dealt with are: things to be avoided by patients with vṛddhi, with the exception of antravṛddhi (19.3–4ab); the treatment of vṛddhi due to vāta (19.4cd–9ab), pitta (19.9cd–10), blood (19.11–12ab), kapha (19.12cd–14), medas (19.15–18ab), and urine (19.18cd–20ab); the treatment of antravṛddhi (19.20cd–22);¹⁷⁷ cauterization (19.23) and phlebotomy (19.24) in cases of vṛddhi;¹⁷⁸ the general treatment of curable types of upadaṃśa (19.25); elimination of the doṣas in upadaṃśa (19.26–27); the treatment of upadaṃśa due to vāta (19.28–30ab), pitta (19.30cd–33ab), and kapha (19.33cd–35); the surgical treatment of upadaṃśa (19.36–39); recipes for a powder (cūrṇa) (19.40–41), decoction (kvātha) (19.42–43), and oil (19.44–45ab); some more recipes (19.45cd–48ab); the treatment of the remaining two types of upadaṃśa, which cannot always be cured (19.48cd–49ab); the treatment of upadaṃśa caused by all three doṣas together (19.49cd–51); the treatment of ślīpada due to vāta (19.52–54), pitta (19.55), and kapha (19.56–59); recipes useful in ślīpada (19.60–69).¹⁷⁹