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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Karna Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: The 28 Ear Diseases of the Uttara Tantra — Earache, Ear-Ringing as Karna Nada, and the Classical Ear-Drop Pharmacy (Chapters XX–XXI)

Quick Summary Between the eye and the throat, the Sushruta Samhita pauses at the organ of hearing — and catalogues...

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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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Sushruta's Eye Surgery: Arma (Pterygium), Bhedya and Chhedya Karma in the Uttara Tantra

Quick Summary More than two thousand years ago, the Sushruta Samhita — the surgical classic of Ayurveda — described operations...

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