A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.129

v1.c24.129

The subjects dealt with are: medicated ghees to be administered at the beginning of the treatment of pāṇḍuroga (16.1);³⁷¹ the formula of another medicated ghee (16.2–4);³⁷² purificatory treatment (16.5–9);³⁷³ prescriptions against pāṇḍuroga (16.10–15ab);³⁷⁴ the formula of maṇḍūravaṭaka (16.15cd–20ab);³⁷⁵ more prescriptions (16.20cd–32);³⁷⁶ rules for the treatment of pāṇḍuroga due to vāta, pitta, kapha, and all the doṣas (16.33–34);³⁷⁷ the treatment of pāṇḍuroga caused by the eating of earth (16.35–39);³⁷⁸ the general treatment of kāmalā (16.40–44);³⁷⁹ the treatment of kāmalā with discoloured faeces (16.45);³⁸⁰ the aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment of kāmalā located in the śākhās (16.46–52ab);³⁸¹ the treatment of kumbhakāmalā (16.52cd–53ab)³⁸² and halīmaka (16.53cd–57ab);³⁸³ the procedures described in the treatment of śopha should be adopted too in the treatment of pāṇḍuroga (16.57cd).