Hindu Practice of Medicine

by Kaviraj Russick Lal Gupta

Contents:

1. Preface
2. General treatment of fever
3. Treatment of dysentery (atisar)
4. Treatment of diarrohoea (grihini)
5. Treatment of arsa, (piles)
6. Treatment of ajirna, (indigestion) and, dyspepsia, (agni mandya)
7. Treatment of bisuchika (cholera)
8. Treatment of worms, (krimi)
9. Treatment of jaundice, (pandu)
10. Treatment of hemorrhagia, (raktapitta)
11. Treatment of phthisis pulmonalis, (consumption)
12. Treatment of cough (kasa)
13. Treatment of hiccup (hikka)
14. Treatment of asthma, (swasa)
15. Treatment of hoarseness, (swarabheda)
16. Treatment of chardi, or vomiting
17. Treatment of swooning, (murcha)
18. Treatment of burning of body, (daha)
19. Treatment of burning of the feet, (pada-daha)
20. Treatment of madness, (unmada)
21. Treatment of possessed persons, or devil-madness (bhutonmada)
22. Treatment of epilepsy, (Apasmara or mrighi)
23. Treatment of nervous diseases, (bata byadha)
24. Treatment of bata rakta (a kind of leprosy)
25. Treatment of diseases of the extremities
26. Treatment of acute rheutimatism, (ambat)
27. Treatment of sul, colic (gastro-periodyania)
28. Treatment of parinam sul
29. Treatment of retention of discharges (udabarta)
30. Treatment of gulma, (swellings in the abdomen)
31. Treatment of diseases of the heart
32. Treatment of strangury (mutrakricchra) and suppression of urine, (mutraghata)
33. Treatment of urinary calculi, (asmari)
34. Treatment of morbid secretion of urine, (prameha)
35. Treatment of somaroga or (bahumutra)
36. Treatment of great fatness, (medah)
37. Treatment of enlargement of the abdomen (udara)
38. Treatment of swellings (shotha)
39. Treatment of shlipada (elephantiasis)
40. Treatment of disease of the male organs of generation
41. Treatment of scrofulous swellings, (gandamala)
42. Treatment of goitre (galaganda)
43. Treatment of bhagandara, (fistula-in-ano)
44. Treatment of sores on the genital organs, (upadangsha)
45. Treatment of leprosy (kustha or kuth)
46. Treatment of urticaria (sitapita)
47. Treatment of acidity of stomach, vomiting of bile (amalpitta)
48. Treatment of erysipelas, carbuncle? (bisharpa)
49. Treatment of boils, pustules, erysipelas? (bishphotaka)
50. Treatment of small-pox (masurika)
51. Treatment of diseases of the mouth, (mukharoga)
52. Treatment of diseases of the throat
53. Treatment of diseases of the ears, (karnaroga)
54. Treatment of diseases of the nose
55. Treatment of diseases of the eyes, (akkirogah)
56. Treatment of diseases of the head (siraroga)
57. Treatment of the female organs of generation
58. Treatment of diseases of infants, (balaroga)
59. Poisons and their antidotes (panata)
60. Treatment of dhajabhanga or claiba (impotence)
61. Treatment of gudabhrangsa, (prolapsus ani)
62. Treatment of Ahiputana (superficial ulcer round the anus)
63. Treatment of emaciation, (karsa)
64. Treatment of unhealthy (costiveness) discharges (amaha)
65. Treatment of women during pregnancy and labour
66. Treatment of the infant
67. Means of preventing abortion
68. Scientific catalogue of the plants
69. Index.