A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c50.s7.9

v3.c50.s7.9

Noteworthy features of the nosology of the Rasaratnasamuccaya are: a disease called lohala (15.78);146 seven types of vardhma (18.11);147 a list of the eight mahārogas at the beginning of chapter twenty-one: vātavyādhi, aśmarī, kuṣṭha, meha, udara, bhagaṇdara, arśas and grahaṇī (21.1); descriptions of śītavāta (21.2), sparśavāta (21.12) and raktavāta (21.42); nine types of vandhya: ādivandhyā, raktajā, pittajā, kaphajā, saṃnipātajā, bhūtajā, devajā, abhicārajā (22.1–2); a male, incapable of procreation, is called vandhya (22.3); women with four more types of disorders of fertility are called garbhasrāvī,148 mṛtavatsā,149 strīprasūti,150 and kākavandhyā (22.4);151 the list of nose diseases mentions six varieties of pīnasa (24.19);152 kṣayajāśiroroga and anantavāta are absent from the list of diseases of the head (24.71); the treatment of baldness and premature greying of the hair are discussed after the section on diseases of the head (24.82–90); khaṇḍakeśa and cācāroga are used as synonyms of baldness (indralupta; 24.82 and 87); the list of kṣudrarogas consists of vyaṅga, kacchapa, nīlikā, kunakha, viddha,153 utkoṭha, koṭha,154 alasa, kakṣa, ruddhaguda, prasupti,155 vivṛtā, visphoṭa, valmīka, viṣṭha,156 kadara, ajagalli, jaṭumaṇi, andhālajī, rājikā, kṣudrā,157 lāñchana, śarkarā, yavaprakhyā, agnirohīṇī, jālāśmagardabha,158 vidārī, masūrikā, paḍmakaṇṭaka, gardabhī, śarkarārbuda, śaṣa, ānandadūṣikāḥ,159 gaṇḍhāhvayā,160 panasikā, and irivellikā (25.1–2).