Charaka Samhita Part 20: Sutrasthana Chapter 20 (Maharoga Adhyaya) — How Ayurveda Classifies Every Disease by Vata, Pitta and Kapha

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Garbhotpatti in the Bhavaprakasha: The Ayurvedic Understanding of Conception, Shukra-Shonita and the Forming of the Embryo (Garbha)

Quick Summary Long before anyone had seen an egg, a sperm or a chromosome, the physicians of classical India sat...

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Charaka Samhita Part 19: Sutrasthana Chapter 19 (Ashtodariya Adhyaya) — Why Vata, Pitta and Kapha Are the Root of Almost Every Disease

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Kacha and Linga-nasha in the Sushruta Samhita: The Ancient Ayurvedic Cataract Couching Surgery (Uttara Tantra, Chapter 17)

Quick Summary Somewhere around two and a half thousand years ago, an Indian surgical text set down, step by careful...

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Charaka Samhita Part 18: Sutrasthana Chapter 18 (Trishothiya Adhyaya) — How to Recognise When Vata, Pitta or Kapha Is Out of Balance

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Kushtha in the Sushruta Samhita: The Classical Ayurvedic Map of the Skin — Twacha, the Three Doshas and the Eighteen Types (Nidana Sthana, Chapter 5)

Quick Summary Long before there was a word for “dermatology,” the Sushruta Samhita was already reading the skin (twacha) with...

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