A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.98

v1.c24.98

The subjects dealt with are: reducing measures (laṅghana) (1.1–3);² emetics (1.4–8);³ the importance of reducing measures (1.9–10); indications for the drinking of warm water (1.11–13);⁴ contra-indications (1.14–15ab);⁵ the recipe of a cooled down decoction (1.15cd–16ab);⁶ everything that is opposed to pitta (pittaviruddha) should be avoided in fevers (1.16cd–17); drugs should not be prescribed in the immature (āma) stage of a fever (1.18–19ab);⁷ indications for sudation (1.19cd–21ab);⁸ the order of particular types of treatment in fevers (1.21cd–22ab);⁹ types of fever which do not require reducing, but, instead, appeasing (śamana) measures (1.22cd–23ab);¹⁰ signs indicating whether or not the reducing measures have been adequate (1.23cd–24ab);¹¹ next, after proper reducing treatment, a medicated peyā should be administered (1.24cd–29);¹² cases in which, instead of a peyā, a yavāgū is more suitable (1.30–34ab); a medicated broth or yūṣa may also be prescribed (1.34cd);¹³ alternative preparations when a peyā is contra-indicated (1.35–38); when the doṣas have become free from āma, a kaṣāya may be administered (1.39);¹⁴ such a kaṣāya should be bitter when pitta predominates, and astringent in fevers with predominance of kapha (1.40–41); a number of opinions on the proper time for the prescription of drugs (1.42);¹⁵ contra-indications (1.43–44ab);¹⁶ indications (1.44cd–45ab);¹⁷ recipes for kaṣāyas (1.45cd–55ab);¹⁸ the formula of drākṣādiphāṇṭa (1.55cd–58);¹⁹ more recipes for kaṣāyas (1.59–69); after digestion of the drugs, one should prescribe a peyā, etc., or a yūṣa (1.70–72ab); suitable foods and drinks, medicated broths (1.72cd–81ab); next, after the kaṣāyas, and after a suitable regimen for ten days, a medicated ghee should be prescribed; indications²⁰ and contra-indications;²¹ the importance of ghee and its actions (1.81cd–89);²² pippalyādighṛta (1.90–91);²³ various other ghees (1.92–94);²⁴ after digestion of the ghee, the patient should eat a mixture of boiled rice and meat broth (māṃsarasaudana) (1.95); yūṣas are beneficial in fevers by kapha and pitta, not in those by vāta (1.96–97ab); rules for purificatory treatment when the fever does not subside, in spite of treatment (1.97cd–105ab);²⁵ weakened patients, not fit for purificatory treatment, should drink medicated milk or a nirūha should be administered (1.105cd–106ab);²⁶ recipes for medicated milk preparations (1.106cd–115);²⁷ enemas (1.116–125ab);²⁸ errhines (1.125cd–126);²⁹ dhūmas and gaṇḍūṣas (1.127–128);³⁰ applications on the skin (abhyaṅga, pariṣeka, etc.) and for the eyes (1.129–142);³¹ various therapeutic measures (1.143–147);³² restoration of the equilibrium of the doṣas (in saṃnipātajvara) (1.148);³³ the dangerous swelling at the root of the ear, developing at the end of a saṃnipātajvara; its treatment (1.149–150);³⁴ phlebotomy at the arms is necessary if the fever does not subside (1.151);35 the described treatments should also be used in cases of viṣama jvara (1.152); recipes and various therapeutic measures to be adopted in cases of viṣama jvara (1.153–167);36 the treatment of exogenous fevers (1.168–173);37 things to be avoided by fever patients (1.174–175);38 things beneficial to patients suffering from fever (1.177).39