Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The seven kinds of eruptions, which persons afflicted with ‘Prameha’ get, and which have been spoken of by me in the Lesson on diseases in general (vide Lesson XVII, Sutrasthâna, ante), should be treated by experienced surgeons by means of the lancet and other instruments as also by dressings and plasters. 57

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Causes, the ‘doshas’ ( viz., wind, bile, and phlegm), those constituent elements of the body that are vitiated (in order to produce the disease), as regards ‘Meha,’ as also its curability (or otherwise), and its subsequent symptoms, the two kinds of persons afflicted with ‘Meha,’ the three kinds of treatment, the indications that determine either course of treatment, the regimen that should be taken, viz., the various preparations of barley, ‘Manthas,’ and decoctions that are alleviative of ‘Meha,’ the preparations of oils and ghees and lickables, the kinds of food that may be prescribed (for those to whom the oils, &c., are administered), wines of excellent and well-tried virtues, various kinds of physical exercise, baths, strongly kneading the body (with oils and other unguents), and scents, — these have been declared by me for the alleviation of these ten kinds of ‘Meha,’ in this Lesson of the Division called ‘ChikitsS.’

Thus ends Lesson VI, called ‘Prameha,’ in the Division, called ‘Chikitsa,’ of the treatise of Agnivega as revised by Charaka.

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