Chapter 1.16: Assessment & Care in Panchakarma (Chikitsaprabhritiya Adhyaya / चिकित्साप्राभृतीय अध्याय)

Covers assessment of proper, inadequate, and excessive purification therapy, signs of dosha accumulation requiring purification, benefits of correct treatment, management of complications, and the Svabhavoparamavada theory of natural disease resolution.

Source: Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan by Vagbhata

This chapter provides detailed assessment criteria for Panchakarma therapy outcomes - distinguishing proper, inadequate, and excessive purification. It establishes purification's superiority over fasting for permanent disease eradication and introduces the Svabhavoparamavada theory (natural resolution). The physician's role is defined as restoring tissue concordance through concordance-promoting measures, thereby bestowing health, longevity, and the four life goals (dharma, artha, kama, moksha).