A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.116

v1.c24.116

The subjects dealt with are: grahaṇīdoṣa should be treated in the same way as ajīrṇa (10.1ab); the āma present should be made mature by the treatments described (in the chapter) on atīsāra (10.1 cd); prescriptions (10.2); 241 the treatment to be adopted when āma is present (10.3); 242 the reasons for treating grahaṇīdoṣa with takra (10.4–5); 243 prescriptions, 244 in particular against grahaṇīdoṣa due to vāta (10.6–32ab), 245 pitta (10.32cd–44), 246 kapha (10.45–56ab); 247 prescriptions stimulating the digestive fire (10.56cd–65ab); 248 pañcakarman therapy is indicated in grahaṇīdoṣa due to all three doṣas (10.65cd); 249 more prescriptions stimulating the digestive fire (10.66–69ab); 250 a prescription that brings the samāna back to its normal pathway and thus activates the digestive fire (10.69cd–71ab); 251 the treatment of hard bowels (10.71cd–72ab); 252 the treatment of weakness of the digestive fire due to various causes (10.72cd–78); 253 the importance of a balanced digestive fire (10.79–80); 254 the pathogenesis and symptomatology of atyagni (hyperactivity of the digestive fire) (10.81–83ab); 255 the treatment of this condition (10.83cd–90); 256 the digestive fire digests (pacati) the food; in the absence of food, it digests the doṣas; when the doṣas have decreased, it digests the dhātus;