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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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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