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RASARATNA SAMUCHAYA
From 13th chapter onwards, the health, diseases and curation are
described in this <strong>book</strong>. Cancer, lungs problems, typhoid, TB, vomiting, heart
problems, stomach-intenstine-liver-pancreas-ailments, urinary bladder
problems, sex diseases, ear-eyes-bone-intenstine-problems, etc., are described
upto 26th chapter. 26th chapter is exclusively for rasayana chikitsa, 27the
chapter for vajeekarana or rejuvenation, 29th chapter exclusively deals with
poisons, and 30th chapter devoted for mercury based drugs and treatments.
RASENDRA SARA SANGRAHA
The second chapter of the <strong>book</strong> is fully devoted for the diseases and
treatment using chemicals, i.e rasa chikitsa. Here description is given as
follows: Jwara and its treatment, various types of fevers, various types of
contageous diseases caused by worms and microorganisms, treatment for
breathing problems, epilepsy and convulsions- bile related problems, skeletal
joints, heart problems, urinary problems, diabetics, leprosy, hyper acidity, earnose-throat-neck-eyes-head-brain-problems
etc.
The third chapter discusses the subject of diseases for the children as
known now as pediatrics/child specialist. The fourth chapter is the treatments
for poisons and the fifth chapter for rasayana vajeekaranam.
RASA CHANDRIKA
In the first part of this <strong>book</strong>, detailed description and treatment for
diabetics, the stomach problems and for few other diseases are given. The rest
of the <strong>book</strong> describes only on furnaces and processing the rasas for using as
medicines.
RASARNAVAKALPA
Rasarnavakalpa is a text <strong>book</strong> of 10th or 11th century AD. The first part of
this <strong>book</strong>, as explained earlier gives details of metallurgical process and the use
of the metal and their compounds for treatment. In the second part in 77
verses, explains the tantric method of rasayanas and their benefits. From 78 to
207 verses discussion of the mercurial preparation for the treatment of variety
of diseases are given, from 213 verses onwards the use of medicinal plants are
given with and without minerals and metals.
The order of further discussion in this <strong>book</strong> is as follows, the mercury and
its various preparations used as such or with other products for treatment.
Medicinal plants and classification of medicinal plants. 64 families of the
plants are explained here. The medicinal preparations of metallic compounds
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