A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.84

v1.c24.84

Chapter five (rājayakṣmādinidāna) deals with: the characterization of rājayakṣman as a disease that develops in the wake of many other diseases, and as leading itself to several other disorders; its synonyms: kṣaya, śoṣa, rogarāj (5.1); 95 the explanation of these names (5.2–3); 96 the four causes of rājayakṣman (5.5–6); 98 the prodromes (5.7–13ab); 99 the eleven symptoms (5.13cd–15ab); 100 the complications (5.15cd–18); 101 the pathophysiological processes leading to the wasting character of the disease (5.19–22); 102 types of patients to be accepted or rejected (5.23); 103 the six kinds of disorders of the voice (svarabheda): caused by one doṣa separately, all the doṣas together, kṣaya, and medas (fatty tissue) (5.24a–c); 104 the symptoms of these six types (5.24d–27c); 105 the types caused by all the doṣas and by medas should not be accepted for treatment (5.27cd); 106 anorexia (arocaka) arises from doṣas located in tongue and heart; five types are distinguished: three caused by one doṣa separately, one by all three doṣas, and one by mental affliction (5.28); 107 the symptoms of these five types (5.29); 108 the five types of vomiting (chardi): three caused by one doṣa, one by all three doṣas, and one due to aversion to particular objects of the senses; 109 its pathogenesis (5.30); 110 the prodromes (5.31ab); 111 the symptoms of the five types (5.31cd–37ab); 112 cases of vomiting due to parasites (kṛmi), thirst, āma, and dauhṛda are also caused by the doṣas; 113 the symptoms of vomiting due to parasites (5.37cd–38c); 114 heart diseases (hṛdroga) are of five types and arise from the same causes as gulma (5.