Doshopakramaniya Adhyaya: Ashtanga Hridaya's Unripe Fruit Rule

The short version Chapter 13 of the Ashtanga Hridaya's Sutrasthana is called Doshopakramaniya — the general line of approach for...

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Anupana in the Charaka Samhita: How Kalpa Sthana Chapter 7 Makes 110 Formulas From One Root

The short version Chapter 7 of the Charaka Samhita's Kalpa Sthana takes a single root and builds one hundred and...

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Dhatu Mala and Ojas in the Bhavaprakasha: What Every Tissue Throws Away, and the One Round That Throws Away Nothing

The short version The Bhavaprakasha spends several pages of its Purva Khanda on how one dhatu becomes the next. Far...

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Graha Chikitsa in the Sushruta Samhita: One Protocol, Repeated Four Times (Uttara Tantra 28-31)

In short Chapters 28 to 31 of the Sushruta Samhita's Uttara Tantra give the therapeutics — the Pratishedha — for...

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Kantha Roga, Talu Roga and Jihva Roga: Sushruta Samhita's Throat, Palate and Tongue Diseases (Nidana Sthana 16)

The short version The sixteenth chapter of the Sushruta Samhita's Nidana Sthana catalogues sixty-five disorders of the mouth. Its first...

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Doshabhediya Adhyaya: Vagbhata's Sixty-Two Ways the Doshas Go Wrong, the Three Rogamargas, and Why Ashtanga Hridaya Numbers Health as the Sixty-Third

The short version Most of the Ashtanga Hridaya describes. The twelfth chapter of the Sutrasthana, Doshabhediya Adhyaya, counts. Having spent...

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