Shokaja Atisara: Where the Sushruta Samhita Puts Grief

The short version Chapter 40 of the Uttara Tantra of the Sushruta Samhita is the chapter on Atisara. It opens...

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Kshudra Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: Indralupta, Darunaka, Palita and Vyanga - the Hair, Face and Foot Portraits of Nidana Sthana 13

Quick Summary The thirteenth chapter of the Sushruta Samhita’s Nidana Sthana catalogues the Kshudra Roga — the forty-four “minor ailments”...

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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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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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Vega Dharana in the Ashtanga Hridaya: The Urges to Never Suppress, and the Urges to Master (Roganutpadaniya)

Quick Summary Long before the modern advice to "listen to your body," the Ashtanga Hridaya of Acharya Vagbhata made it...

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