A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s45.16

v3.c44.s45.16

(1) The Cikitsāmañjarī 248 is a therapeutic treatise in 428 skillful verses, 249 arranged in seven chapters (kusuma). The order of the diseases agrees in large measure with the Mādhavanidāna. The author added verses on emetics (6.93–95) and purgatives (6.96–601), aphrodisiacs (vājīkaraṇa and kāmoddīpana; 6.102–108), rasāyana (7.1–70), and anupāna (7.71–73). The materia medica is of an āyurvedic type, except for the thirty-two rasayogas described in the section on rasāyana of chapter seven.