The 'five actions' - Ayurveda's programme of purificatory therapies. Charaka and Sushruta do not agree on what the five are: Sushruta, characteristically for a surgeon, includes bloodletting.

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  The two books cannot even agree on what the five purifications of panchakarma are.

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