A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.660

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70 Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl (ayāpān) (AVI 201; Daljīt Siṃha, 1974: II, 58–59). 71 See AVI 201. 72 Vātāda is a synonym of vātāma. 73 Compare AVI 201–202. 74 The verses describing these fevers are identical with those of the Bhāvaprakāśa; the first series also occurs in Vaṅgasena's Cikitsāsārasaṃgraha, the third series in Śārṅgadhara's Triśatī. 75 It is difficult to identify these diseases, not recorded in other texts; medaḥsūtra appears to be fatty degeneration of the heart, vikṣepikā myocardial infarction. 76 See on this subject: D. Wujastyk (1987). 77 The same as bradhna or vardhma. 78 Probably hemiplegia of traumatic origin. 79 A sudden loss of consciousness in young children. 80 This disorder makes intercourse very painful. 81 This disorder, characterized by growths on the external genitals, and caused by vāta, blood, or masturbation (karakarman), requires surgical treatment; anaesthesia is mentioned. 82 The diseases from āgantuja pakṣāghāta up to jarāyuroga are absent from the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī. 83 See on the mental disorders of this group: G.J. Meulenbeld (1997): 206–208. 84 The aetiology and symptomatology of this disease (the accumulation of fluid in the thoracic cavity), absent from the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī, are described; its therapy is the same as in the latter treatise, but differently phrased. 85 This chapter is much shorter than that on the same subject of the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī; the therapeutic prescriptions are similar. 86 The aetiology and symptoms, absent from the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī, are described; the disease is not only caused by the absence of the beloved one, but also by disorders of the reproductive organs, as well as by disorders of śukra and of anila (= vāta); the treatment is similar to that of the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī. 87 The aetiology and symptoms, absent from the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī, are described; gadodvega resembles hypochondria; a variety occurring in males, snāyugada, is characterized by fear of losing one's potency; the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī has more verses on its therapy than the Āyurvedavijñāna. 88 The nidāna and treatment of this disease, which may be hysteria, are similar to those found in the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī. 89 This disease, also called brahmamoha, is a mental disorder, elaborately described in the Āyurvedavijñāna, but not described at all in the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī; tattvonmāda appears to be a materialist and atheistic world view; its treatment, consisting of both chastisement and drugs, is similar in both treatises. 90 This disease is also called acalasamsthāna, tādavasthyagada, aparivartaka, and aparivṛtti; it appears to be a nervous or mental disease, to judge from its description in the Āyurvedavijñāna; acalavāta makes the patient stay immobile in a frozen attitude, thus suggesting a catatonia-like stupor; its treatment resembles that found in the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī. 91 Khañjanikā appears to be a disorder of the nervous system, to judge from its description; it is caused by the overindulgence in khañjanī, a kind of pulse (dvidalā), and may therefore be the same as the kalāyakhañja of the Suśrutasaṃhitā; its treatment is like that described in the Bhaiṣajyaratnāvalī.