Introduction
I  Caraka and his legacy
Historical Caraka - Philosophical moorings - Medical science
Pharmacology - Practice of medicine - Caraka the teacher - Human destiny
II   Atharva Veda to Caraka
Atharvan echoes in Caraka - Human body in Atharva Veda...
III   Diseases in Caraka's period  
Infectious diseases and infected conditions (disgestive disorders, fever; lepros)l smallpox, pulmonary TB, abscess, cellulitis, sores) - Non-infectious diseases (seizures, piles, gaseous lumps, heart diseases, alcohol-related disorders, pallor, polyuria, bleeding disorders, insanity)
IV Doctrines and concepts
Five constituents of matter (paficabhuta) - Three dosas (tridosa). A regimen dictated by seasons (rtucarya) - Natural urges (Vegas)
V    Five evacuative procedures (pancakarma)
VI   Procedures for rejuvenation and enhanced virility (rasayana and vajikarana)
VII    Medicinal plants
Classification - Mechanism of action - Preparation· of formulations ­Anti-dosa plants
VIII   Food and Drinks
IX     Habitat
X      Learning to be a physician

Section 1

Mind and matter; life and death; health and disease; food and drugs; a code of living; a physician's calling

1 Ayurveda
Branches of ayurveda - Categories in ayurveda - Equilibrium of dhatus ­Equilibrium of dhatus - Settling disturbed equilibrium of dosas - Summary of drug formulations
2 Drugs formulations in therapeutics
3 Sense perception and well-being
Oiling the body - Role of smoking, food, sexual intercourse, general conduct, traditions
4 Life in accord with the seasons
5 Suppression of natural urges;
comments on physical miscellany
6 The medical quartet
Types of physicians - Forecasting outcome
conduct, traditions Means of knowledge (authority, perception, inference and reasoning) –Rebirth - Disease and treatment (triads of life, strength, causation, action, time, diseases, disease channels, physician and treatment)
8 Lubricants in therapeutics
Action _ Candidates for therapy - Administration - Basis of dosage
Method of therapy
9 Fomentation
Choice of candidate – Techniques
10 Evacuative therapy
A house for therapy - Two forms of therapy
11 Imbalance of dosas - varied expressions
Disorders of the head - Disorders of the heart - Abscesses - Swellings –
Imbalance of dosas
12 Slimming and building up in therapeutics
13 Obesity and leanness; stray remarks on sleep
Obesity - Leanness – Sleep
14 Blood
Narcosis - Fainting – Coma
15 Food as the source of man and his diseases
Origin of man and his diseases - Food as the source - Wholesome and
unwholesome food
16 Rasas
Evolution and attributes - Six rasas - Action of tastes - Antagonisms in
Foods
17 Food and drink
Food - Drink - Water - post-prandial drinks
18  The fate of food and drinks in the body
Food and drink - Dhatus as targets of dosa perturbation
19 Physicians - genuine and fraudulent
20 Rasas, do!}as and a healthful diet
Rasa-dosa interaction - Downstream aspects - Dietetic rules
21 Epidemics; reflections on lifespan
22 Norms for the quantity of meals
23 Body - a network of channels
Flow through body channels - The heart and its ten great vessels
24 Disease - manifold expressions of deranged dosas
25 Infestation by worms (krmi)
Evacuative measures for intestinal and head worms - Eradicative measures
26 Training of a physician - theory, practice and ethics
The physician at the bedside - The body of the patient - Initiation of treatment –
Drugs for evacuative therapy
27 The body and its knower
The individual (mind, sense organs, intellect, prakrti) –
The self -The supreme Self- Causes of sorrow and disease
28 Conception
Begetting a child - A religious ceremony - Perturbed dosas - Early pregnancy
and gender of the baby - Signs and symptoms of pregnancy ­The self and the
embryo
29 Genesis of the embryo 
30 Pregnancy - fetal development,
Anomalies and personality types
Pregnancy (sequential development of fetus) - Fetal development and anomalies
- Personality types
31 Antenatal and postnatal management 
and care of the baby
The fetus and the course of pregnancy - Antenatal care - Miscarriage ­
A house for delivery - Childbirth - After delivery - Breastfeeding ­The nursery
32 The individual and the cosmos
33 A count of body parts
Skin, the body frontier - The parts of the body - Bones - Sense orgar.~ ­Vital
principles - Viscera - The body essences
34 The spectre of death
Warning signs - Sudden death - Prognostic role of a house call

Section 2

Rejuvenant and virile therapy; diseases and the regimens for treatment

35 Rejuvenant therapy (rasayana)
Celestial origin - Two regimens for rejuvenation (intramural and extramural) –
Rasayana formulations - Rasayana formulations with metals
36 Virile therapy (vajikarana)
37 Fevers (jvara)
Causation - Classification and clinical features - 'Treatment - Other fevers
38 Pitta-induced bleeding disorders~rakta pitta)
Cause - Clinical features - Clinical outcome - 'Treatment
39 Gaseous and hemorrhagic lumps of the abdomen (gulma)
Five types of lumps - Signs and symptoms - Formulations in treatment –
Abdominal lumps in women
40 Polyurias (pramehas)
Kaphaja prameha - Pittaja prameha - Vataja prameha - Treatment –
General measures                                                                 
41  Skin disorders including leprosy (kustha)
Causation - Seven types of kustha - Other skin disorders (~ksudra ~kustas) -         
Treatment                                                                             
42  Phthisis (sosa)
Causes - Premonitory signs and clinical course - Body processes as the
basis of clinical features - 'Treatment.
43 Insanity (unmada)
Classification on the basis of causation – Treatment
44 Epilepsy (apasmara)
Clinical features - Treatment - Delusional state in epilepsy – Disease
begetting disease
45 Chest injuries and their sequelae (ksata ksina)
Clinical features - 'treatment - Diet – Formulations
46  Swelling (svayathu)
Classification - Sites – Treatment
47 Abdominal disease with distension (udara)
Classification – Treatment
48 Piles (aria)
Congenital piles - Disturbance of dosas - Clinical course – Treatment
49 Digestion and digestive disorders (grahani)
Digestion - Digestive disorders – Treatment
50 Disorders of pallor (panduroga) (anemias
Kamala - Earth eating (pica) - Jaundice with white stools
51 Hiccup; shortness of breath (hikka svasa)
Causes and mechanisms - Types – Management
52 Cough (kasa)
Causes – Management
53 Diarrhea (atisara)
Types - Management
54  Vomiting (chhardi)
Causes - Management
55  Cellulitis (visarpa)
Types - Clinical features - Management
56   Thirst (trsna)
Clinical features - Management
57 Cellulitis (visarpa)
Types - Qualities - Clinical course - Clinical features - Snakes and snake bite –
Bites by spiders and other creatures - Procedures - Other measures of.
management - Suspected bites . Homicidal poisoning
58 Alcoholic disorders (madatyaya
Proper and other uses - Clinical features - Management - Complications
59 Sores and injuries (vrat:ta).
Causes - Classifications . Clinical fearnres . Clinical course - Treatment
60 Three regional disorders
(basti, hfdaya and siras)
Vital regions (marmas) of the body - Disorders of the vital regions ­Disorders of.
the head - Pelvis - Heart region and chest disorders -
The head region
61 Numb and immobile thights (Urustambha)
62 Disorders of perturbed vata (vatavyadhi)
Clinical features - Treatment - Mixed types - Wrapping
63 Disorders of perturbed vata and blood vatasonita)
Clinical features and types - Treatment
64 Disorders of the reproductive system;
reflections on the principles of therapeutics
Disorders of the female genital organs - Disorders of breast milk (ksira dosa)
Seminal disorders and impotence (sukradosa) . Principles of
therapeutics
65 Drugs for evacuation
(emetics and purgatives)
Emetics - Purgatives - Preparations/formulations
66 Evacuative procedures (pancakarma)
and formulations
Emesis and purgation (general guidelines, complications and management) - Head evacuation - Suitable and unsuitable clinical conditions for evacuation (emesis, purgation) - Enema (non-lubricant, lubricant) - Head evacuation - Enemas (general conditions, procedural details, formulations for non-lubricant and lubricant enemas) ­Complications of enemas and guidelines for management - Special enemas - Post-evacuation management

Epilogue
Botanical names
Glossary
Index