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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Vidradhi in the Sushruta Samhita: The Classical Ayurvedic Science of the Abscess (Nidana Sthana, Chapter 9)

Quick Summary The ninth chapter of the Nidana Sthana of the Sushruta Samhita — Ayurveda’s great classic of surgery —...

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Kushtha in the Sushruta Samhita: The Classical Ayurvedic Map of the Skin — Twacha, the Three Doshas and the Eighteen Types (Nidana Sthana, Chapter 5)

Quick Summary Long before there was a word for “dermatology,” the Sushruta Samhita was already reading the skin (twacha) with...

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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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