A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.5

v1.c24.5

deśa is of two kinds: bhūmideśa (the type of country) and dehadeśa (the body);¹⁹ bhū(mi)deśa is of three types: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa (1.23–24ab);²⁰ the two kinds of time: divided into units, such as kṣaṇa, etc., and relating to the stages of a disease (1.24cd);²¹ remedial measures (auṣadha) are either purificatory (śodhana) or pacificatory (śamana) (1.25ab); enemas (basti), purgatives (vireka) and emetics (vamana), as well as oil, ghee and honey, are the best remedial measures against vāta, pitta and kapha respectively (1.25cd–26ab); discrimination (dhī), constancy (dhairya) and knowledge concerning the ātman, etc., are the best remedial measures against the mental doṣas (1.26cd); the four limbs of treatment (pādacatuṣṭaya) consist of the physician, the attendant, the drug and the patient; the four good qualities of each of the four (1.27–29);²² diseases are curable (sādhya) or incurable (asādhya); they are also divided into easily curable (susādhya), curable with difficulty (kṛcchrasādhya), palliable (yāpya), and not amenable to treatment (anupakrama);²³ the features of these four types (1.30–33);²⁴ types of patients to be rejected (1.34–35ab).