Sushruta Samhita Uttara Tantra Chapter 66 (Dosha Bheda Vikalpa): The Last Question, and How the Samhita Ends

The short version Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 66 is called Dosha Bheda Vikalpa Adhyaya — the chapter on the...

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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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Shiro Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: the Eleven Diseases of the Head - Ardhavabhedaka, Suryavarta, Anantavata and Shankhaka (Uttara Tantra 25-26)

Quick Summary The twenty-fifth chapter of the Sushruta Samhita’s Uttara Tantra — the Shiro-roga Vijnaniya — counts eleven diseases of...

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Pratishyaya in the Sushruta Samhita: The Five Catarrhs of the Uttara Tantra, the Nose's Classical Pharmacy and the Warm-Turban Regimen (Chapters XXIII–XXIV)

Quick Summary Our last Sushruta reading in the Uttara Tantra counted the thirty-one diseases of the nose; today the same...

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Vriddhi, Upadansha and Shlipada in the Sushruta Samhita: The Seven Scrotal Swellings, the Hernia Verse and the Map of Elephantiasis — Nidana Sthana Chapter 12, with the Forty-Four Kshudra Rogas Census

Quick Summary The Sushruta Samhita’s Nidana Sthana reaches its twelfth chapter — and finishes the story our last Sushruta reading...

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