Graha Chikitsa in the Sushruta Samhita: One Protocol, Repeated Four Times (Uttara Tantra 28-31)

In short Chapters 28 to 31 of the Sushruta Samhita's Uttara Tantra give the therapeutics — the Pratishedha — for...

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Kantha Roga, Talu Roga and Jihva Roga: Sushruta Samhita's Throat, Palate and Tongue Diseases (Nidana Sthana 16)

The short version The sixteenth chapter of the Sushruta Samhita's Nidana Sthana catalogues sixty-five disorders of the mouth. Its first...

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Doshabhediya Adhyaya: Vagbhata's Sixty-Two Ways the Doshas Go Wrong, the Three Rogamargas, and Why Ashtanga Hridaya Numbers Health as the Sixty-Third

The short version Most of the Ashtanga Hridaya describes. The twelfth chapter of the Sutrasthana, Doshabhediya Adhyaya, counts. Having spent...

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Trivrt and Vatsaka in the Charaka Samhita Kalpa Sthana: The Root Ranked Best for Virechana, Its Two Colours, and Chapters That Audit Themselves

The short version The Kalpa Sthana is the pharmacy manual buried inside the Charaka Samhita, and it is organised around...

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Dhatu Poshana in the Bhavaprakasha: How Rasa Becomes Rakta, Mamsa and Shukra - the Kedari-Kulya Verse and the Five-Day Dhatu Clock

The short version Everyone who reads Ayurveda learns the list of seven dhatus — Rasa, Rakta, Mamsa, Meda, Asthi, Majja,...

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Bala Graha in the Sushruta Samhita: the Nine Grahas of Infancy in Uttara Tantra 27 - Skanda, Putana, Revati and Naigamesha

The short version Chapter 27 of the Uttara Tantra of the Sushruta Samhita names nine Bala Grahas — Skanda, Skandapasmara,...

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