A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.365

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Chapter twenty is devoted to the treatment of the kṣudrarogas. ¹⁸⁰ Its subjects are: the treatment of ajagallikā (20.3–4), andhālajī, yavaprakhyā, panasī, kacchapī, and pāṣāṇagardabha (20.5–6); the treatment of vivṛtā, indravṛddhā, gardabhī, jālagardabha, ¹⁸¹ irivellī, gandhanāmnī, kakṣā, and visphoṭaka; these disorders should be treated in the same way as pittaja visarpa (20.7–8); the treatment of cippa (20.9–10); kunakha should be treated in the same way as cippa; anuśayī should be treated like vidradhi (an abscess) caused by kapha (20.11); the treatment of vidārikā (20.12–16); the treatment of śarkarārbuda, which is like that of arbuda due to medas; kacchū, vicarcikā and pāmā are to be treated like kuṣṭha; some beneficial pastes (lepa) and oils (20.17–19ab); the treatment of pādadārī (20.19cd–20), alasa (20.21–23ab), kadara (20.23cd), indralupta (20.24–27ab), arūṃsikā (20.27cd–29cd), and dāruṇaka (20.29ef–30); the treatment of palita will be described later (20.31ab); ¹⁸² masūrikā should be treated like kuṣṭha or visarpa caused by pitta and kapha (20.31cd–32ab); ¹⁸³ the treatment of jatumaṇi, maṣaka and tilakālaka (20.32cd–33ab), nyaccha, vyaṅga and nīlikā (20.33cd–36), yauvanapiḍakās ¹⁸⁴ (20.37–38ab), padminīkaṇṭaka (20.38cd–39), parivṛti, ¹⁸⁵ avapāṭikā (20.40–42), and niruddhaprakaśa (20.43–46ab); saṃniruddhaguda, valmīka and vahnirohiṇī (= agnirohiṇī) should be treated without expecting full recovery; agnirohiṇī should be treated on the same lines as visarpa, saṃniruddhaguda on the same lines as niruddhaprakaśa (20.46cd–48ab); the treatment of valmīka (20.48cd–55); characteristics of valmūka making it not amenable to treatment (20.56); the treatment of ahipūtanā (20.57–60ab); ¹⁸⁶ muṣkakacchū ¹⁸⁷ should be treated like ahipūtana and pāmā (20.60cd); the treatment of gudabhraṃśa (20.61–63).