21 articles filed under Ayurveda.
Yogataraṅgiṇī, an 18th-century Ayurvedic compendium, works out the whole system of weights — from a rājikā seed to a pala — and the exact ratios for cooking medicated oils.
Suśruta's Śārīrasthāna opens with Sāṃkhya cosmology — unmanifest Prakṛti, the three guṇas, and a body mapped onto the elements and deities — before turning to anatomy and women's health.
Rasaratnākara, attributed to Nityanātha, argues rasa — mercury — is superior to all other medicines, and sets out the purification and calcination that turn it into ash.
Pathyāpathyānighaṇṭa is a diet manual organized by disease — wholesome and unwholesome foods for fevers, diarrhea, anemia, gout, and dozens of other conditions.
Nighaṇṭuśeṣa, a glossary by the Jain scholar Hemacandra, lists the synonyms of medicinal plants — bael, myrobalans, sandalwood — so that no herb is lost behind an unfamiliar name.
A pulse manual from the Bhandarkar collection treats the nāḍī as a lamp revealing the doṣas — and lays out which pulse positions and qualities foretell recovery or death.
Nāḍīparīkṣādi Aṣṭaparīkṣā is a manual of the eightfold examination — pulse, urine, stool, tongue, sound, touch, sight, and form — with rules for the physician's own conduct.
A Bhāvaprakāśa manuscript explains the difference between āma — undigested, toxic residue — and nirāma, the same doṣa once 'cooked,' with the signs that tell them apart.
Ātaṅkadarpaṇanidāna, a 19th-century Rajasthani fever manual, charts sannipāta — fever of all three doṣas — and its critical seventh, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days.
Mādhavanidānaṃ, a 12th-century Ayurvedic classic, codified diagnosis into five questions — nidāna, pūrvarūpa, rūpa, upaśaya, and samprāpti — turning bedside observation into a discipline.
A Carakasaṃhitā manuscript on embryology describes the fetus built from six elements and a self — and quotes Atreya: whatever exists in the world exists in the human being.
Mādhava's foundational diagnostic manual organizes the physician's task into five categories — etiology, prodrome, symptom, therapeutic test, and pathogenesis.
From wind-born to tridoṣic, the Mādhavanidāna's fever chapter classifies jvara by cause, tissue, and season to predict which fevers are curable.
This verse treatise analyzes how sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes pacify or provoke the three doṣas at meals, by day, and across life.
Śambhunātha's treatise on the knowledge of time counts the breaths of a lifetime and reads the pulse for signs of death, fusing physiology with prognostication.
A five-folio manuscript from the Poona University Collection documents dozens of formulations built around Terminalia chebula, the king of remedies.
Trimalla's hundred-verse compendium classifies water, milk, grains, meats, and metals by taste and dosha, turning the kitchen itself into a materia medica.
Haṁsarāja's 1945 treatise pairs nāḍī pulse examination with a fever nosology, preserved at the Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan in Jodhpur.
The Bālatantra pairs a hymn to the goddess Śītalā with cooling herbal remedies for eruptive fevers, uniting devotion and pharmacy in a single chapter.
Kalyāṇa's complete pediatric treatise compiles Ayurvedic treatments for childhood diseases, infant care, and maternal health into one practical manual.
Kalyāṇa's pediatric manual opens with infertility and menstrual disorders, pairing herbal conception remedies with auspicious lunar timing and ritual.