A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.127

v1.c24.127

The subjects dealt with are: the necessity of regular purgation for patients suffering from udara; the reason is that the pathways of the channels (srotomārga) are obstructed by an excessive accumulation of doṣas (15.1);341 purgative prescriptions (15.2–3);342 medicated ghees for those who are dry and full of vāta (15.4–8);343 after lubrication with these ghees, the physician should prescribe purgatives (15.9);344 a purgative cūrṇa; the regimen that should follow it (15.10–12);345 another cūrṇa (15.13);346 the purgative called nārāyaṇacūrṇa (15.14–21);347 more purgatives (15.22–26);348 the diet of patients weakened by the purgatives (15.27a–c);349 weak patients should, in case of urgency, be purged by administering oleaginous substances only (15.27d–28ab); medicated ghees against udara (15.28cd–34);³⁵⁰ rules for patients taking these ghees (15.35–36);³⁵¹ the indications for these ghees; their efficacy (15.37);³⁵² prescriptions against ānāha (15.38);³⁵³ the proper diet after elimination of the doṣas (15.39ab);³⁵⁴ prescriptions for the removal of remnants of the doṣas (15.39cd–42);³⁵⁵ various prescriptions against udara and its complications (15.43–53ab);³⁵⁶ the treatment of udara due to vāta (15.53cd–58),³⁵⁷ pitta (15.59–65),³⁵⁸ kapha (15.66–75),³⁵⁹ all three doṣas (15.76–84);³⁶⁰ the treatment of plīhodara (enlargement of the spleen) (15.85–98ab);³⁶¹ enlargement of the liver should be treated in the same way as plīhodara (15.98cd);³⁶² the treatment of baddhodara (15.99–100),³⁶³ chidrodara (15.101)³⁶⁴ and udakodara (15.102–106);³⁶⁵ surgical intervention is necessary when the last three types of udara do not subside with the mentioned procedures (15.107);³⁶⁶ the surgical treatment of baddhodara and kṣatāntra (= chidrodara) (15.108–112),³⁶⁷ and jalodara (= udakodara) (15.113–117);³⁶⁸ after-treatment (15.118–120ab);³⁶⁹ articles of diet suitable to or to be avoided by patients with udara (15.120cd–132).³⁷⁰