A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.104

v3.c46.104

Other subjects dealt with are: the three types of nāḍī (vāyuvahā, mūtraviḍasthirasavāhinī, āhāravāhinī; 1.37);45 the total number of nāḍīs (thirty-five millions),46 the gross nāḍīs (1,072 in number), and the twenty-four main nāḍīs (1.41–45); the places where to feel the pulse (1.46–55); suitable and prohibited times for the examination of the pulse; (2.1–3); suitable and unsuitable patients (2.6–7); the correct procedure for examining the pulse (2.8–20); the characteristics of a normal pulse (2.21); the deities presiding over the various pulses (2.22); the colours of the nāḍīs (2.23); the characteristics of the pulse in disturbances of the doṣas (2.26–59) and the author’s own opinion on this subject (2.33–46); the pulses indicating curability and incurability or approaching death (2.60–95); the articles of food to be prescribed in patients with an abnormal pulse (2.99–106); the pulse in various disorders (3.1–28); the number of pulsebeats (3.29–41).47