Netra Abhighata: Eye Injury in the Sushruta Samhita and the Three-Patala Prognosis (Uttara Tantra, Chapter 19)

Quick Summary In the Uttara Tantra of the Sushruta Samhita — Ayurveda’s great classic of surgery and of Shalakya Tantra,...

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Anjana in the Sushruta Samhita: Ayurveda's Classical Collyrium (Kajal) and Its Three Types — Lekhana, Ropana and Prasadana

Quick Summary Almost every Indian childhood carries a memory of it: a fingertip of soft black kajal, warmed at a...

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Netra Kriya Kalpa: The Five Classical Ayurvedic Eye Therapies of the Sushruta Samhita (Tarpana, Seka, Aschyotana, Anjana, Puta Paka)

Quick Summary Long before the microscope or the ophthalmoscope, classical Ayurveda built an entire, careful science of tending the eye....

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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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Timira in the Sushruta Samhita: Drishti-gata Roga, Night-Blindness (Naktandhya) and the Anjana Collyriums of the Uttara Tantra

Quick Summary Of all the senses, sight was the one the ancient surgeons of India guarded most jealously — and...

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