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Medical Sciences in Jaina Canons : 537
(i) Causticisation, (ii) Branding, ( ili ) Medicinal substances and (iv) Surgery.
The different practices could be classified under these heads. However, a better classification would be based on the nature of medication under current terms : (i) physical, (ii) surgical, (iii) medicinal and (iv) psychological processes. They are described below. It must be noted that all the physical processes have some type of medical action on the diseased
part.
(i) Physical Methods
1. Rubbibg with oil 2. Rubbing with powder 3. Oil drinks
4. Vomitting 5. Purging with drugs 6. Medicated bath 7. Syringing bladder 8. Oil enema 9. Bathing hair with oil 10. Nourishing with oils 11. Nourishing with cooked 12. Use of hairy/hairless oils
leather 13. Wrapping with fur or 14. Sweating
leather 15. Massaging
16. Special anointing 17. Pressing/sneezing 18. Sun-bath 19. Water bath
20. Mud/earth poultice 21. Leeching
22. Administration of medi
cines (bark, rhizomes,
bitter and juicy extracts) 23. Making herbal tablets 24. Preparing special
medicines 25. Preparing mixtures of 26. Medical fumitigation/ medicines
incensing .27. Making decoctions and 28. Causticisations
multiple digestions 29. Leaf and ground leaf poultice (ii) Surgical 1. Opening veins or
2. Cutting. acupuncture
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