Ghee Hidden in Milk: Bhavaprakasha on the Body's Last Reserve

The short version Partway through the Purva Khanda of the Bhavaprakasha, Bhavamisra stops describing and starts arguing. He has been...

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Jatharagni and Agnimandya in the Bhavaprakasha: How Food Becomes Body - Amashaya, Kledaka Kapha, Pachaka Pitta and the Grahani (Purva Khanda)

The short version Somewhere around the sixteenth century, Bhavamisra sat down to explain what happens to food after you swallow...

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Udara Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: The Eight Types of Abdominal Swelling in Ayurveda (Nidana Sthana)

Quick Summary Roughly two thousand years ago, the surgeon-physicians of India sat down and did something remarkable: they sorted the...

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Prakriti in Ashtanga Hridaya: Vagbhata's 7 Ayurvedic Body Constitutions, Dosha Clock, Agni & Kostha Types

Quick takeaway: In Ashtanga Hridaya Sutrasthana 1.10, Vagbhata — the third author of the Brihat-Trayi after Charaka and Sushruta —...

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