A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s3.24

v1.c23.s3.24

The Cikitsāsthāna opens with two chapters on the treatment of vraṇas. Chapter three is devoted to the treatment of bhagna, while its aetiology is found in chapter fifteen of the Nidānasthāna. Chapters four to twenty-two are about the therapy of the diseases discussed, in the same order, in chapters one to fourteen and sixteen of the Nidānasthāna. Chapter twenty-three, on śopha, has parallels in Caraka’s Sūtra- and Cikitsāsthāna. The contents of chapter twenty-four are similar to those of chapter five of Caraka’s Sūtrasthāna. Chapter twenty-five is without a parallel in Caraka’s treatise. Chapters twenty-six to thirty are about vājīkaraṇa and rasāyana,252 which are the subjects of the first two chapters of Caraka’s Cikitsāsthāna. Chapters thirty-one to forty are concerned with pañcakarman and related topics, discussed in some chapters of the Sūtrasthāna and in the Siddhisthāna of the Carakasaṃhitā.