A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1382

Language: English

v3.c46.1382

BHESAJJAMAÑJŪSĀ.⁵⁴ This treatise in verse, the only medical work written in Pali, is arranged in sixty chapters (paddhati). Chapters one to eighteen are concerned with general concepts (upaññāsavidhi), drugs (dabbādi), regimen (sadācāra), disorders caused by the suppression of the natural urges (agāmiroganisedha), articles of food (annavyañjana), fluids (davadabba), poisoned foods (savisāhāra), antidotes (paṭivisa), disturbances of digestion (āmabheda), classification of drugs (gaṇa), major treatments (mahākamma), minor treatments (cullakamma), unfavourable omina and other signs (five chapters: dūtāriṭṭha, gamanāriṭṭha, supināriṭṭha, upātāriṭṭha, rogāriṭṭha), and general causes of diseases (rogasāmāñña). Chapters nineteen to fifty-eight deal with diseases and their treatment; the order of the diseases differs from the arrangements found in other āyurvedic treatises. Chapter fifty-nine is about particular cures. Chapter sixty describes tonics (rasāyana).55