A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s49.108

v3.c44.s49.108

*The Vaidyarahasya* 687 The treatise consists of about 1,900 verses, arranged in more than seventy chapters. The order of the diseases is broadly the same as in the *Mādhavanidāna*, apart from a number of additions: jvarātisāra, raktatisāra, plīhan, yakṛdroga, kārśya, agnidagdha, snāyuka, phiraṅgavāta, rasāyana, and vājīkaraṇa; bradhma (aṇḍavṛddhi 18), somaroga (strīroga 18 and 23) and śītalājvara (masūrikā 9) are also mentioned without a separate chapter being devoted to these disorders. Some contraceptive and abortifacient formulae are found in the chapter on disorders during pregnancy (garbhavaticikitsā 31–35). Prodromes, symptoms, etc., are rarely enumerated; exceptions are e.g., aupatyakajvara (jvara 145–146), āma- and pākavatisāra (atisāra 4–5). Usually, mention is made of what is wholesome (pathya) and unwholesome (apathya) in a particular disease.