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Introduction I Caraka and his legacy Historical Caraka - Philosophical moorings - Medical science Pharmacology - Practice of medicine - Caraka the teacher - Human destiny II Atharva Veda to Caraka Atharvan echoes in Caraka - Human body in Atharva Veda... III Diseases in Caraka's period Infectious diseases and infected conditions (disgestive disorders, fever; lepros)l smallpox, pulmonary TB, abscess, cellulitis, sores) - Non-infectious diseases (seizures, piles, gaseous lumps, heart diseases, alcohol-related disorders, pallor, polyuria, bleeding disorders, insanity) IV Doctrines and concepts Five constituents of matter (paficabhuta) - Three dosas (tridosa). A regimen dictated by seasons (rtucarya) - Natural urges (Vegas) V Five evacuative procedures (pancakarma) VI Procedures for rejuvenation and enhanced virility (rasayana and vajikarana) VII Medicinal plants Classification - Mechanism of action - Preparation· of formulations Anti-dosa plants VIII Food and Drinks IX Habitat X Learning to be a physician
Section 1
Mind and matter; life and death; health and disease; food and drugs; a code of living; a physician's calling
1 Ayurveda Branches of ayurveda - Categories in ayurveda - Equilibrium of dhatus Equilibrium of dhatus - Settling disturbed equilibrium of dosas - Summary of drug formulations 2 Drugs formulations in therapeutics 3 Sense perception and well-being Oiling the body - Role of smoking, food, sexual intercourse, general conduct, traditions 4 Life in accord with the seasons 5 Suppression of natural urges; comments on physical miscellany 6 The medical quartet Types of physicians - Forecasting outcome conduct, traditions Means of knowledge (authority, perception, inference and reasoning) –Rebirth - Disease and treatment (triads of life, strength, causation, action, time, diseases, disease channels, physician and treatment) 8 Lubricants in therapeutics Action _ Candidates for therapy - Administration - Basis of dosage Method of therapy 9 Fomentation Choice of candidate – Techniques 10 Evacuative therapy A house for therapy - Two forms of therapy 11 Imbalance of dosas - varied expressions Disorders of the head - Disorders of the heart - Abscesses - Swellings – Imbalance of dosas 12 Slimming and building up in therapeutics 13 Obesity and leanness; stray remarks on sleep Obesity - Leanness – Sleep 14 Blood Narcosis - Fainting – Coma 15 Food as the source of man and his diseases Origin of man and his diseases - Food as the source - Wholesome and unwholesome food 16 Rasas Evolution and attributes - Six rasas - Action of tastes - Antagonisms in Foods 17 Food and drink Food - Drink - Water - post-prandial drinks 18 The fate of food and drinks in the body Food and drink - Dhatus as targets of dosa perturbation 19 Physicians - genuine and fraudulent 20 Rasas, do!}as and a healthful diet Rasa-dosa interaction - Downstream aspects - Dietetic rules 21 Epidemics; reflections on lifespan 22 Norms for the quantity of meals 23 Body - a network of channels Flow through body channels - The heart and its ten great vessels 24 Disease - manifold expressions of deranged dosas 25 Infestation by worms (krmi) Evacuative measures for intestinal and head worms - Eradicative measures 26 Training of a physician - theory, practice and ethics The physician at the bedside - The body of the patient - Initiation of treatment – Drugs for evacuative therapy 27 The body and its knower The individual (mind, sense organs, intellect, prakrti) – The self -The supreme Self- Causes of sorrow and disease 28 Conception Begetting a child - A religious ceremony - Perturbed dosas - Early pregnancy and gender of the baby - Signs and symptoms of pregnancy The self and the embryo 29 Genesis of the embryo 30 Pregnancy - fetal development, Anomalies and personality types Pregnancy (sequential development of fetus) - Fetal development and anomalies - Personality types 31 Antenatal and postnatal management and care of the baby The fetus and the course of pregnancy - Antenatal care - Miscarriage A house for delivery - Childbirth - After delivery - Breastfeeding The nursery 32 The individual and the cosmos 33 A count of body parts Skin, the body frontier - The parts of the body - Bones - Sense orgar.~ Vital principles - Viscera - The body essences 34 The spectre of death Warning signs - Sudden death - Prognostic role of a house call
Section 2
Rejuvenant and virile therapy; diseases and the regimens for treatment
35 Rejuvenant therapy (rasayana) Celestial origin - Two regimens for rejuvenation (intramural and extramural) – Rasayana formulations - Rasayana formulations with metals 36 Virile therapy (vajikarana) 37 Fevers (jvara) Causation - Classification and clinical features - 'Treatment - Other fevers 38 Pitta-induced bleeding disorders~rakta pitta) Cause - Clinical features - Clinical outcome - 'Treatment 39 Gaseous and hemorrhagic lumps of the abdomen (gulma) Five types of lumps - Signs and symptoms - Formulations in treatment – Abdominal lumps in women 40 Polyurias (pramehas) Kaphaja prameha - Pittaja prameha - Vataja prameha - Treatment – General measures 41 Skin disorders including leprosy (kustha) Causation - Seven types of kustha - Other skin disorders (~ksudra ~kustas) - Treatment 42 Phthisis (sosa) Causes - Premonitory signs and clinical course - Body processes as the basis of clinical features - 'Treatment. 43 Insanity (unmada) Classification on the basis of causation – Treatment 44 Epilepsy (apasmara) Clinical features - Treatment - Delusional state in epilepsy – Disease begetting disease 45 Chest injuries and their sequelae (ksata ksina) Clinical features - 'treatment - Diet – Formulations 46 Swelling (svayathu) Classification - Sites – Treatment 47 Abdominal disease with distension (udara) Classification – Treatment 48 Piles (aria) Congenital piles - Disturbance of dosas - Clinical course – Treatment 49 Digestion and digestive disorders (grahani) Digestion - Digestive disorders – Treatment 50 Disorders of pallor (panduroga) (anemias Kamala - Earth eating (pica) - Jaundice with white stools 51 Hiccup; shortness of breath (hikka svasa) Causes and mechanisms - Types – Management 52 Cough (kasa) Causes – Management 53 Diarrhea (atisara) Types - Management 54 Vomiting (chhardi) Causes - Management 55 Cellulitis (visarpa) Types - Clinical features - Management 56 Thirst (trsna) Clinical features - Management 57 Cellulitis (visarpa) Types - Qualities - Clinical course - Clinical features - Snakes and snake bite – Bites by spiders and other creatures - Procedures - Other measures of. management - Suspected bites . Homicidal poisoning 58 Alcoholic disorders (madatyaya Proper and other uses - Clinical features - Management - Complications 59 Sores and injuries (vrat:ta). Causes - Classifications . Clinical fearnres . Clinical course - Treatment 60 Three regional disorders (basti, hfdaya and siras) Vital regions (marmas) of the body - Disorders of the vital regions Disorders of. the head - Pelvis - Heart region and chest disorders - The head region 61 Numb and immobile thights (Urustambha) 62 Disorders of perturbed vata (vatavyadhi) Clinical features - Treatment - Mixed types - Wrapping 63 Disorders of perturbed vata and blood vatasonita) Clinical features and types - Treatment 64 Disorders of the reproductive system; reflections on the principles of therapeutics Disorders of the female genital organs - Disorders of breast milk (ksira dosa) Seminal disorders and impotence (sukradosa) . Principles of therapeutics 65 Drugs for evacuation (emetics and purgatives) Emetics - Purgatives - Preparations/formulations 66 Evacuative procedures (pancakarma) and formulations Emesis and purgation (general guidelines, complications and management) - Head evacuation - Suitable and unsuitable clinical conditions for evacuation (emesis, purgation) - Enema (non-lubricant, lubricant) - Head evacuation - Enemas (general conditions, procedural details, formulations for non-lubricant and lubricant enemas) Complications of enemas and guidelines for management - Special enemas - Post-evacuation management Epilogue Botanical names Glossary Index