A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.226

v3.c46.226

The first and longest section, called madanādigaṇavarga, has thirty-two subsections and is chiefly devoted to medicinal plants. It agrees rather closely with the śodhanādigaṇasaṃgraha of Vāgbhaṭa. Bhiṣagārya’s groups of drugs are the same as those of Vāgbhaṭa, but he omits one of them (A.h.Sū.15.7), a compound group which enumerates seven vargas with the same therapeutic effects. 261 Repetitions, which are frequent in Vāgbhaṭa's groups, are avoided by Bhiṣagārya, who also leaves out groups of drugs, such as, for example, triphalā.