A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.106

v1.c24.106

The subjects dealt with are: emesis and purgation in cases of rājayakṣman (5.1–4ab); 121 beneficial articles of diet, in particular various kinds of meat (5.4cd–11); 122 alcoholic and other fluids (5.12–14ab); 123 medicated ghees (5.14cd–21); 124 ṣaṭpalaghṛta (5.22–23); 125 other medicated ghees (5.24–25ab); māṃsasarpis (5.25cd–27); elādisarpiguḍa (5.28–32); the sarpiguḍa recipes employed in the treatment of kṣata(kāsa) may also be used against kṣaya (= rājayakṣman) (5.33ab); a recipe for a cūrṇa or electuary (5.33cd–34); 126 the treatment of svarasāda (the group of disorders of the voice) (5.35–46); 127 various prescriptions against arocaka (loss of appetite) (5.47–53); 128 elādika- or samaśarkaracūrṇa (5.54–55ab); 129 yavānyādicūma (5.55cd–58ab); 130 tālīsādicūrṇa (5.58cd–60); 131 the treatment of praseka (excessive salivation) (5.61–63); 132 pīnasa (nasal catarrh) and vamathu (vomiting) should be treated in the same way as praseka (5.64ab); 133 specific treatments for pīnasa (5.64cd–65); 134 the treatment of piercing pains (śūla) in head, shoulders, and the sides of the chest (5.66–72ab); 135 the treatment of a diarrhoea that is accompanied by mucous matter (piccha) (5.72cd–73ab); 136 the importance of preserving the faeces in a patient with rājayakṣman whose dhātus are depleted (5.73cd–74ab); measures to counteract progress of the disease and to nourish the dhātus (5.74cd–82ab); 137 general beneficial measures (5.82cd–84). 138