Treatment of kapha diseases
श्लेष्मव्याधिचिकित्सित · चिकित्साधिकार
Opening of the tenth chapter, on kapha disorders. It begins with an invocation, the signs of aggravated kapha and the measures that calm it, followed by powders, pastes, gargles and medicated smoke against kapha diseases.
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Headings from the book in reading order. Open a topic for its summary and the knowledge it refers to.
- Invocation and statement of intent to describe kapha diseasesश्लेष्मरोगाभिधानप्रतिज्ञा / मंगलाचरणInvocationp. 148
Bowing to Ajitanatha Jinendra, worshipped by the lords of the gods and endowed with the eight great pratiharyas, who duly taught the substances such as jiva and ajiva, distinct in their…
Stiffness, coldness, swelling, heaviness, hardness, intense cold, severe itching, unctuousness and wetness, salivation, distaste for food, heaviness of the head, excessive sleep, weak…
Aggravated kapha is said to be calmed by alkalis, the group of hot substances, light and clear food and drink in small amounts, soups of horse gram and mung, pungent soups of peas and…
Kapha is calmed by holding gargles of mustard and the like, of salty, pungent, astringent and bitter drugs and of hot water; by cleaning the teeth with sticks of neem, karanja, babul and…
A powder of bharangi, asafoetida, vacha and the other drugs listed (twenty-two in the verse) is impregnated again and again with the juices of the sour group, dried and powdered. Taken with…
The patient first drinks plenty of lukewarm neem decoction with the three pungents and vomits; afterwards a powder of equal parts of khadira, kutaja, patha, patola leaf, turmeric and the…
Four preparations are given: the three pungents and rock salt in equal parts with citron juice; the reddish alkali of the mushkaka (mokha) tree; triphala in equal parts; and bhringaraja…
Three powders are given: asafoetida, cardamom, cumin, chavya, the three pungents, yavakshara and black salt; or musta, the three pungents, ajamoda, amalaki, rock salt, patha, haritaki and…
A paste of bael, chitraka, pippalimula, renuka seed, mahashravani and gorakhmundi, realgar, shigru root, agnimantha, both kinds of arka, vacha, the three pungents, turmeric, mustard, onion…
Equal parts of shigru, karanja, chitraka, the three pungents, karavira (kaner), ashvagandha and wild basil, or of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, are ground fine…
Amalaki, bibhitaki, haritaki, the three pungents, turmeric, chakramarda, aparajita (koyal), neem, karanja, bhallataka and the five salts are ground with sour gruel and buttermilk and rubbed…
A paste of pippalimula, asafoetida, the three pungents, kunati (coriander, per the commentary), kamrakh, bharangi and turmeric is spread on a thin cloth, wrapped round a castor stalk, lit…
Cardamom, cinnamon, nagakesara, long pepper, black pepper and dry ginger are taken in rising parts from one to six, powdered and mixed with sugar equal to all of them. The powder is called…
One part talisa, two of black pepper, three of dry ginger, four of long pepper and five of cinnamon and cardamom together are powdered, mixed with jaggery and made into balls the size of an…
Kakajangha, both karanjas, khadira, palasha, vijayasar, meshashringi, long pepper, cardamom, both turmerics, kutaja bark, vacha, kushtha, musta, vidanga, nirgundi, chitraka, bhallataka,…
Whatever is bitter, dry, pungent, astringent, drying, alkaline, sharp, clear, light and hot destroys kapha; the physician should learn the tastes and qualities of such substances well, and…
Red and white castor, both nightshades, varuna, aragvadha, agnimantha, chitraka root, shigru, arka and white arka bark, patala, tarkari, devadaru, apamarga, shyonaka (tentu), murva,…
Whatever is sharp, unctuous, hot, salty, very heavy, sour, slimy, or sweet, pungent and bitter in nature is said to destroy vata disorders; knowing their tastes and qualities, they are used…
Kunduru, neem, clove, liquorice, sahadevi, gangeran, vidari tuber, kakoli, vrishchikali, rasaunt, mahua flowers, vetiver, mango, banana, musta, hribera, lotus, jalabet, sandalwood,…
Whatever is unctuous, cold, sweet, astringent, bitter (तीखा in the commentary), slimy, very soft and heavy pacifies pitta; knowing their tastes and qualities well, they are used in food,…
Cinnamon, cardamom, long pepper, vamshalochana and very white sugar, each double the one before, are dried, powdered and mixed; eating this is said to overcome raktapitta, consumption,…
The verse closes the account of the three doshas: their causes, the signs that appear when they are aggravated and the means of pacifying them have been told in a few brief verses. The…
The author says the medicines described so far are inconceivable, with countless tastes, potencies, post-digestive effects and specific actions, and that many other medicines with greater…
The learned physician, able to defeat the whole army of diseases, considers the doshas (which dosha caused the disease, which is strong and which weak), understands the merits and faults of…
The groups of medicines told so far for each disease are described as unique and unfailing. If all the medicines named in a group cannot be obtained, the physician may treat with half of…
- The physician's duty regarding curable and incurable diseasesसाध्यासाध्य रोगों के विषय में वैद्य का कर्तव्यPrognosisp. 156
Curable diseases are to be cured with medicines and the like, manageable (yapya) diseases are to be kept in check with skilled procedures, and incurable diseases that are hard to understand…
The closing verse likens the treatise to a drop drawn from the great ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, whose waves are all substances and whose two banks are the…