A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.419.3

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the signs of adequate, deficient and excessive treatment (40.36–41); an errhine (nasya) should be used on alternate days or every third day, either for a week or three weeks, or as long as necessary (40.42); a patient overwhelmed by vāta should be treated with a nasya twice daily (40.43); 438 rules for the preparation, the administration, and the indications of an avapīḍa (40.44); 439 śirovirecana in particular groups of patients (40.45); powdered drugs (cūrṇa) should be used for pradhamana; indications for this treatment (40.46); 440 contra-indications for the treatment with errhines (40.47); 441 disorders due to an improper administration of errhines; these disorders are caused by aggravation (utkleśa) or decrease (kṣaya) of the doṣas; the treatment of the disorders (40.48–50); the fourteen occasions suitable to the use of a pratimārśa (40.51); the beneficial effects on each of these occasions (40.52); the correct dose of medicated oil for a pratimārśa is that which, when snuffed, just reaches the oral cavity (40.53); beneficial effects of the treatment with an errhine (40.54–55); oil should be used as the vehiculum of an errhine in disorders caused by a combination of kapha and vāta, fat (vasā) in vāta disorders, ghee in pitta disorders, bone marrow in disorders by a combination of pitta and vāta; oil, however, may be used in all cases since it does not disagree with the seat of kapha involved (i.e., the head) (40.56–57);