CONTENTS:-
I. INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS:
1. Definition and Scope of Dravya
2. How the Drug Acts?
3. Actions or Effects of Drugs
4. Potency of Drugs
5. Pharmacokinetics
6. Site of Action
7. Route of Administration
8. Time of Drug Administration
9. Mode of Action
10. Vriddhi and Kshaya
11. Poshyabhava-Poshakabhava-Agni
12. Local, General and Remote Actions
13. Elective Affinity of Drugs
14. Results of Drug Therapy
15. Drug Therapy
16. Anupana (Vehicle)
II. TREAT THE MAN AS A WHOLE AND GIVE THE DRUG AS A WHOLE:
1. Treat the Man as a Whole
2. Give the Drug as a Whole
III. RASA DEFINITION-DESCRIPTION-DETERMINATION:
1. Review of Literature
IV. THE ORIGIN OF SIX RASAS VIS A VIS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE:
1. Cycle of the Evolution of Rasai
2. Cycle of Rasas
3. Cycle of Rasas
4. Cycle of Rasas (Physiological Cycle):
i. The Importance of the Rasas
ii. Definition of Rasa
iii. The Kinds or Number of Taste
iv. Specific Characteristic of Six Rasas
v. Amla Rasa
vi. Actions of Amla
vii. Lavana Rasa
viii. Katu Rasa
ix. Tikta Rasa
x. Kashaya Rasa
xi. The Mechanism of Taste
xii. Problems
xiii. Solutions to the Problems
xiv. Tables Showing the Rasa of Drugs
xv. Method to Determine the Taste-Threshold
xvi. Classification of the Intensity of Taste
xvii. Ecological Effects on Taste-threshold
V. VIPAKA (DETERMINATION OF DIGESTION AND METABOLISM OF SUBSTANCES):
1. Definition of Vipaka
2. Avasthapaka and Nisthapaka
3. Kinds of Vipaka
4. Trividha Vipaka
5. Vipaka at the Level of Agnis
6. How to Determine Vipaka
7. Practical Works and Conclusions
VI. GUNAS (QUALITIES OF DRUGS):
1. Guna
2. Definition of Guna
3. Adhyatmika Gunas
4. Gurvadi Gunas
5. Paradi Gunas
6. Visista Gunas
7. Twenty Sharira Gunas and Six Types of Treatment
8. Santarpana Treatment
9. Apatarpana Treatment
VII. VEERYA (POTENCY OF DRUGS):
1. Definition and Scope of Veerya
2. Kinds of Veerya
3. How to Determine Veerya
4. Some Experimental Studies on Veerya
VIII. PRABHAVA AND MEDICAMENTS.
IX. MEDICAMENTS (IDENTIFICATION OF DRUGS, ASSESSMENT OF THEIR PROPERTIES & EVALUATION OF THEIR ACTIONS):
1. Name and N.O. of Drugs
2. Controversy in Identification
3. Physical and Chemical Properties
4. Therapeutic Actions
5. Habitat
6. Method of Preservation
7. Pharmaceutical Processing of it's Preparation
8. Dosage
9. Clinical Trials and Results
10. Trials on Healthy Volunteers and Patients
11. Gorakhaganja (Avera Lanata)
12. When a Drug is given, a Risk is taken
X. ALPHABETIC LIST OF DRUGS AND THEIR PARTS USED.
