A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.111

v3.c46.111

The treatise covers all the subjects usual in a work on the pulse, but it deals with other diagnostic procedures as well, namely the examination of the eyes (netraparīkṣā; 222–228), tongue (jihvāparīkṣā; 229–230), nose (nāsikāparīkṣā; 231), faeces (malaparīkṣā; 232–234), urine (mūtraparīkṣā; 235–247), and menstrual discharge (ārtavaparīkṣā; 248–252).54 This explains that the Nāḍijñānadarpaṇa has more verses on general aspects of medicine than the average text on nāḍīparīkṣā and that various types of parīkṣā are referred to in its introductory part as indispensable procedures which have to precede any therapeutic action.