This section is from the book "The Sushruta Samhita", by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. Also available from Amazon: The Sushruta Samhita.
The four factors of medical treatment - Good which results from a satisfactory combination of all these lour factors - Commendable features in a physician, patient, medicine and nurse .. .. .. .. .. 303 - 307
Chracteristic features of a long lived or short lived man, or of one with an average duration of life - Physical temperaments and dimensions of the limbs and members of the body - Curable, incurable or suppressive diseases - Sympathetic and Primary diseases - Different kinds of digestive capacity - Three stages of man - Relative preponderance of Vayu, Pittam and Kapham during different stages of life - Classification of countries according to their physical features .. 308 - 328
Plasters for establishing suppuration in swellings - Plasters for bursting, pressing out the pus from, or asepsising swellings - Aseptic pastes - Fumigating compounds - Healing pastes - Compounds which favour granulation in, or destroy the supergrowths around an ulcer .. .. 329 - 335
Destructive traits of the different kinds of soil commended for the growth or culture of medicinal herbs : - Examination of the soil from which medicinal drugs are to be gathered - Examination of drugs - Mode of collecting drugs - Commendable traits in a room to be used as a drug-store .. .. .. 336 - 341
Enumer hudhanya thirty seven different groups of medicinal drugs - Their use ..... 342 - 357
Emetics-Purgatives - Drugs possessed of both emetic and purgative properties - Errhines - Drugs which respectively soothe the deranged Vayu, Pittam and Kapham - Mode of administering medicines.. 358 - 363
Disquisitions as regards the primary importance of drugs, or their flavours, potency, or chemical reaction in respect of curing diseases - Causes of different kinds of digestion - Conclusion as regards the primary importance of drugs in curing a disease .. .. .. .. .. 364 - 374
Classification of drugs according to the preponderance of the virtues of elemental matter in them - Characteristic features of drugs of dominant earth matter, etc. - Periodicity of drug action - Reasons why purgative drugs move the bowels - Factors which lead to the aggravation or subsidence of the deranged Vayu, Pittam and Kapham - Potency of drugs.. 375 - 381
Reasons for the classification of flavours - Relation of the elemental earth matter with the flavours - Reasons for the primary derangement of Vayu, Pittam, etc - Symptoms and aggravating factors of the deranged Vayu, Pittam and Kapham - Virtues of the different kinds of Savour, such as sweet, etc. - Enumeration of groups of drugs, etc. - Sixty-three different combinations of flavour. XXXI ••• 382 - 393
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