A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s49.63

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described, followed by abhinyāsa fever (19.36–72 and 78–79); the members of the series are viddha,⁵¹⁸ bhalla,⁵¹⁹ śarkara, visphuraka,⁵²⁰ śīghrakārin,⁵²¹ phamphaṇaka,⁵²² karṇamūla,⁵²³ karkaṭaka,⁵²⁴ saṃpmohaka,⁵²⁵ saṃgrāma,⁵²⁶ krakaca,⁵²⁷ pākala, and kūṭapākala;⁵²⁸ the therapy of these fevers is not dealt with. A particular rasayoga (aśvakacīkutīrasa: 20.36–37) is said to derive from a yogin who came from a western country (pāścātyadeśāgatayogin).⁵²⁹ The way of preparing a mineral acid or mixture of mineral acids (śaṅkhadrāva) is described (24¹.29–34).⁵³⁰ The disease called bhasmaka is mentioned (24².1–2).⁵³¹ Pariṇāmaśūla is said to be of eight types in a verse quoted from the Alaṃkāra (44.1).⁵³² The disease called kuraṇḍa is mentioned (55.2).⁵³³ The disease called bradhna is dealt with in a separate chapter (56).⁵³⁴ The disease called snāyuka (67.1–4)⁵³⁵ is described in the same chapter as masūrikā. The verses on māsūrikā mention in passing the type called kodravaka (67.9),⁵³⁶ as well as the appeasement of the goddesses Śītalā and Caṇḍī as therapeutic measures in cases of māsūrikā (67.10–11).⁵³⁷ Anticonceptive (75.8–15) and abortifacient measures (75.16–19) are described.⁵³⁸ The bālagrahas, taking possession of a child on the first, second, etc., day, in the first, second, etc., month or year of its life, are called Nandā, Sunandā, Pūtanā, Maṇḍitikā,⁵³⁹ Pūtanā, Śakunī, Śuṣkarevatī, Āryākā, Sūtikā, Nirṛti,⁵⁴⁰ Pīlipiṇḍikā,⁵⁴¹ and Kāmukā (772.1–12).⁵⁴² Noteworthy medicinal substances repeatedly prescribed by Trimalla are ahiphena (opium), bhaṅgā (Cannabis) and mastagī; other interesting names of drugs are candraśūra (62.30), kulīñjana (62.28), and pāṭhīra (64.6).⁵⁴³