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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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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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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Prameha and Madhumeha in Ayurveda: The 20 Classical Types in the Sushruta Samhita (Nidana Sthana, Chapter 6)

Quick Summary Few chapters of classical Ayurveda have fascinated modern readers as much as the one on Prameha. In the...

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Ashmari (Urinary Calculi & Kidney Stones) in the Sushruta Samhita: The Four Types of Mutrashmari (Nidana Sthana)

Quick Summary Few pains in human experience are as old, or as dreaded, as the pain of a urinary stone....

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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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