A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.427

v4.c57.427

273 These formulae are of a rasāyana type; the cyavanaprāśa is attributed to Kṛṣṇātreya, the agastiharītakīpāka to Agasti. 274 Compare Mādhavanidāna 10.5–7 and the corresponding passages from the Caraka- and Suśrutasaṃhitā. 275 Su.U.41.16–27; compare Mādhavanidāna 10.14–31. 276 Cf. Ca.Ni.2.7; Su.U.45.9. 277 The Suśrutasaṃhitā (Ni.2.10–15) distinguishes the same types. 278 Compare Su.Ni.2.17 and A.h.Ni.7.56 on polyps and warts. Warts in the anal region (camakīla; Su.Ni.2.18–20 and A.h.Ni.7.57–58) are not mentioned in the Hārītasamhitā. 279 The works of Caraka (Ci.18), Suśruta (U.52) and Vāgbhaṭa (A.h.Ni.3) distinguish five types, caused by vāta, pitta, kapha, kṣata, and kṣaya. 280 This distinction is not known from other treatises. 281 The types mentioned in other treatises vary; compare Ca.Ci.20, Su.U.49, A.h.Ni.5. 282 The types vary in other treatises; compare Ca.Ci.22, Su.U.48, A.h.Ni.5. 283 Tālūṣoṣa is one of the diseases of the oral cavity (mukharoga) in the Suśrutasaṃhitā (Ni.16.45) and Vāgbhaṭa’s works (A.h.U.25.47). 284 The Carakasaṃhitā (Sū.24.35–41) describes four types, arising from vāta, pitta, kapha, and saṃnipāta; the Suśrutasaṃhitā (U.46.7–8) has six types, caused by vāta, pitta, kapha, blood, alcohol, and poison; Vāgbhaṭa (A.h.Ni.6.30cd–35) distinguishes the same varieties as the Carakasaṃhitā. 285 The same disorders, with saṃnyāsa added, are also described in one chapter of the Mādhavanidāna (17). Compare Su.Śā.4.56 (bhrama is caused by pitta, vāta and rajas, tandrā by vāta, kapha and tamas, nidrā by kapha and tamas. 286 Cf. Ca.Sū.21.55–57; Su.Śā.4.42. 287 The same varieties are found in the saṃhitās of Caraka and Suśruta; the other disorders and complications of abuse of alcohol, described in the Caraka- (Ci.24) and Suśrutasaṃhitā (U.47) are not mentioned in the Hārītasamhitā. 288 Mada belongs to a cluster of disorders, together with mūrchā and saṃnyāsa, in the Carakasaṃhitā (Sū.24). Vāgbhaṭa follows Caraka in describing the same cluster (A.h.Ni.6.24cd–25 = A.s.Ni.6.24), but he joins them, in the same way as the Hārītasamhitā, to the illnesses resulting from alcoholism. The Suśrutasaṃhitā does not describe mada as a separate nosological entity. The term mada is often applied to alcoholic intoxication. Compare also Bhela Ci.8.12cd–16 and Su.U.62.5, where the term has a different meaning. 289 Gloriosa superba Linn.; the tubers contain toxic alkaloids, chiefly colchicine (see WIRM IV, 140). 290 Identified as Cascabela thevetia (Linn.) Lippold = Thevetia neriifolia Juss. ex Steud. and Nerium indicum Mill. = N. odorum Soland. The first of these two plants abounds in all parts in a milky juice which is highly poisonous (see R.N. Chopra, R.L. Badhwar and S. Ghosh, 1984: 665–668; A.K. Nadkarni (1954): I, 1218–1219; WIRM X, 225–230). All parts of the second one contain cardiac poisons, which also cause a depression of the nervous sytem (see R.N. Chopra, R.L. Badhwar and S. Ghosh, 1984: 655–658; A.K. Nadkarni (1954): I, 847–849; WIRM VII, 15–17). 291 Usually identified as Lawsonia inermis Linn., but this plant does not contain toxic principles. 292 Probably Cannabis sativa Linn. 293 Areca catechu Linn. See on the chemical composition of arecanuts: WIRM I, rev. ed., 405–406. See on the toxicity of the seeds: A.K. Nadkarni (1954): I, 130–133; S.L. Nayar (1954):