Rasa Panchaka

CONTENTS
Introductory Considerations.
How the drug acts?
Actions or Effects of Drugs
Potency of Drugs
Pharmacokinetics
Site of action
Route of administration
Time of drug administration
Mode of action
Vriddhi and Kshaya
Poshyabhava-Poshakabhava-Agni
Local, General and Remote actions.
Elective Affinity of Drugs
Results of Drug Therapy
Drug Therapy
Anupana (Vehicle)
2. Treat the man as a whole and Give the drug as a whole
Treat the man as a whole
Give the drug as a whole
3. Rasa Definition-Description-Determination
Review of Literature
4. The origin of six Rasas Vis a Vis The origin of life
i Cycle of the evolution of Rasas
i Cycle of Rasas
ii Cycle of Rasas
iii Cycle of Rasas (Physiological Cycle)
The importance of the Rasas
Definition of Rasa
The kinds or number of taste
Specific characteristic of Six Rasas
Amla Rasa
Actions of Amla
Lavana Rasa
Katu Rasa
Tikta Rasa
Kashaya Rasa
The mechanism of taste
Problems
Solutions to the problems.
Tables showing the Rasa of drugs
Method to determine the Taste-threshold
Classification of the intensity of taste
Ecological effects on taste-threshold
5. Vipaka (Determination of digestion and metabolism of substances)
Definition of Vipaka
Avasthapaka and Nisthapaka
Kinds of Vipaka
Trividha Vipaka
Vipaka at the level of Agnis
How to determine Vipaka
Practical works and conclusions
6. Gunas (Qualities of drugs)
Guna
Definition of Guna
Adhyatmika Gunas
Gurvadi Gunas
Paradi Gunas
Visista Gunas
Twenty Sharira gunas and Six types of Treatment
Santarpana Treatment
Apatarpana Treatment
7. Veerya (Potency of drugs)
Definition and scope of Veerya
Kinds of Veerya
How to determine Veerya
Some experimental studies on Veerya
8. Prabhava and Medicaments
9. Medicaments (Identification of drugs, assessment of their properties & evaluation of their actions)
Name and N. O. of drugs
Controversy in identification
Physical and chemical properties
Therapeutic actions
Habitat
Method of preservation
Pharmaceutical processing of it's preparation
Dosage
Clinical trials and results
Trials on healthy volunteers and patients
Gorakhaganja (Avera lanata)
When a drug is given, a risk is taken
10. Alphabetic list of drugs and their parts used