Treatment of minor diseases, part two
क्षुद्ररोगचिकित्सित · चिकित्साधिकार
Opening line of the fourteenth chapter, which covers upadamsha, shuka disease, shlipada, apachi, galaganda, arbuda, granthi, vidradhi and a further set of minor diseases.
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The author bows with great devotion to Jinendra, free of all sin, radiant with the eye of infinite knowledge and the embodiment of the happiness of the three worlds, and promises to…
The treatment sequences given earlier for the different kinds of scrotal enlargement are to be applied, according to the dosha, to upadamsha, the swelling of the penis, and also to all…
Swelling is of two kinds: confined to one part, or arising in the whole body. Swelling spread over the whole body, the middle of the body or half the body, with the other limbs wasted, is…
Opening line of the fourteenth chapter, which covers upadamsha, shuka disease, shlipada, apachi, galaganda, arbuda, granthi, vidradhi and a further set of minor diseases.
- Features and treatment of vidradhi, granthi and pidakaविद्रधि ग्रंथि पिटका लक्षण व चिकित्साConditionp. 242
A very large, pot-shaped swelling is called vidradhi; swellings without an opening are granthi and those with an opening are pidaka. All of them are to be treated at the proper time with…
A patient wasted by severe upadamsha who has fever, burning, breathlessness, thirst, diarrhoea, loss of strength, anorexia and belching, and whose body has become numb, is said to reach the…
Upadamsha with a wound and great swelling from the friction of sharp, uneven teeth is treated with cold ghee, milk and the like and smeared with very cooling drugs. For the swelling called…
Rubbing the penis with rough, uneven leaves to enlarge it, masturbation and intercourse with a narrow vagina produce many eruptions on the penis, called shuka disease; a footnote says it…
Sesame, licorice, peas, ashvattha and green gram, ground well and mixed with ghee, milk and jaggery, are given with the cooling group of drugs to calm vitiated blood, followed by treatment…
From all three doshas aggravated together or from any one of them, a long swelling with that dosha's features arises at the groin and descends to the knee, calf and foot; this stubborn…
A paste of trikatu, garlic, asafoetida, vacha, ingudi and langali applied daily, with warm leaves bound over it, is said to calm aggravated shlipada; one that has grown excessively is to be…
The same drugs mixed with sesame oil and rock salt, or an oil prepared with them, are applied with a leaf bound over to calm valmikapada; oil or ghee cooked in snuhi latex with rock salt,…
After valmikapada has been treated according to the aggravated doshas, its wounds are treated with the oils described many times before, prepared with well-known cleansing drugs.
Excess fat (meda, the fourth dhatu) gathering at the jaw, throat, eyes and the joints of all bones forms a small hard swelling, round or elongated; because fat accumulates in it, it is…
Some apachi nodules burst by themselves and discharge pus, some subside by themselves, and new ones of various irregular forms keep appearing; the oil described earlier is to be used for…
To calm kapha and fat in apachi, emesis and strong nasal medication are given according to rule, followed by purgation, and the treatments described for the various irregular sinuses (nadi)…
Rice pudding (payasa) cooked with arka roots, or with roots of badara, khadira and the large karanja, given daily in food, or grains of the nishpava group mixed with sesame oil, are said to…
Kapha and fat, vitiated, reach the manya vessel of the neck and produce a swelling that hangs from the neck like a scrotum, called galaganda. It is treated with emesis, nasal medication,…
From aggravated vata, blood, pitta, kapha and fat, a fleshy lump arises in the muscles in any part of the body, called arbuda. Because kapha and fat dominate it, it does not suppurate and…
Arbuda is treated with the suitable drug groups described before, rubbing with rough leaves, bloodletting, daily pastes, unction with medicated ghee or oil, leaf poultices and other calming…
Vitiated blood, the doshas, flesh, fat and vessels give rise to nodules (granthi) with the corresponding features; all are treated according to dosha and tissue with the drugs repeatedly…
- Incurable and hard-to-cure siraja granthi, and the two kinds of vidradhiसिराज ग्रंथि के असाध्य, कृच्छ्रसाध्य लक्षण एवं द्विविध विद्रधिPrognosisp. 246
An immobile siraja granthi (painless as well, the commentary adds) is to be left untreated as incurable, while a mobile and painful one is hard to cure. Vidradhi is of two kinds, external…
A vidradhi that has ripened in the anus, heart, liver, navel, spleen or bladder is not curable; one that ripens irregularly and bursts in another part is also incurable, so it should first…
A vidradhi in which aggravated vata brings breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anorexia, distension, colic, fever, heat, a bound-up feeling and immobility, and whose pus comes out upward, is…
For all swellings, a poultice of drugs of the hot group is named first and best, as taught by Jinendra; an unripe swelling then subsides quickly, and one that cannot subside ripens quickly.…
A swelling that is particularly hard is unripe (ama); one with fever, much burning heat and warmth is ripening (vidagdha); one whose severe pains have gone and whose colour has changed is…
Like the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings, surgery has eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction, draining and suturing, done with suitable…
An external vidradhi is treated according to the doshas as described for the unripe, ripening and ripe stages of swelling, and is cleansed and healed with bloodletting, pastes, bandaging…
The preparation of varuna, licorice and shigru is said to be unfailing and always to calm severe internal vidradhi; the roots of shukamukha and dhava (as the commentary reads it), ground in…
The vidradhi patient gets the wholesome diet prescribed for wounds: well-cooked rice of old shali grain with ghee and dried vegetables, hot water to drink, and suitable peya, vilepi or…
Although minor diseases were described before, the author resolves to set out many more kinds of them briefly, with their dosha features and the beneficial drugs.
No disease arises without the doshas, so diseases or subtypes not described should be treated with suitable pacifying drugs after judging from the signs which dosha is primary and which…
As a bubble arises from water and air, so from kapha and vata, water-filled and slightly painful eruptions arise on the skin of children, shaped like a ripe tumburu fruit; they are called…
A newly arisen, unripe ajagalli is treated with leeches to remove the bad blood; a ripe one is quickly incised and given the cleansing and healing of wound treatment along with drugs that…
From kapha and vata arise alaji, very hard, mouthless eruptions in the flesh with little pus, and yava (yavaprakhya), hard eruptions shaped like barley grains; from pitta arises vivrita, a…
From kapha and vata, five or six nodular eruptions with a closed middle raised like a tortoise's back form kacchapika; on the palms and soles, chest, throat, joints and the region above the…
From vata, a central eruption like a lotus pericarp ringed by small round eruptions is indraviddha; from vata, pitta and blood, a hard red round patch with small eruptions like indraviddha…
A very hard, uneven, large swelling at the jaw joint (from vata and kapha, the commentary says) is pashanagardabha; a similar swelling from excess pitta that does not ripen, spreads here…
From kapha and vata, a large, painful swelling arises all around the ear, called panasika; it is treated with the drugs repeatedly described, chosen for its unripe or ripe stage.
Raised, round swellings on the heads of children, with the features of all three doshas and with fever and heat, are called irivalli (irivellika) and are treated with pacifying drugs.
Boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, accompanied by fever, are called kaksha; a paste of clove, licorice, sesame and manjishtha is useful (the…
A single eruption on the skin like kaksha, from excess pitta, is gandhanama (gandhamala); vata joined with pitta, settling in the flesh of the nail, quickly produces burning, suppuration…
Aggravated kapha, settling in the flesh (especially of the feet, says the commentary), forms an eruption and swelling with pus inside that looks calm outside and has slight burning and…
From the three doshas, a round, fixed, large and heavy swelling like the vidari tuber arises in the groin and armpit region, showing the features of all three doshas; it is called vidarika…
Aggravated kapha and vata, vitiating fat, flesh, vessels, skin and all the ligaments, form a very hard large nodule that, when it ripens and bursts, discharges matter like honey, fat or…
- Vicharchika, vipadika, pama, kacchu, kadara and dariविचर्चिका, वैपादिका, पामा, कच्छु, कदर, दारी रोग लक्षणConditionp. 253
Vicharchika, its variety vipadika, pama and kacchu were described in the kushtha section and have the same features here. A knot like a jujube or a nail on the sole, from pricking by…
When pitta with vata enters the hair follicles, the hair falls and turns white; when kapha and blood then block the follicles, no new hair grows. This is indralupta (chai).
A round, red, painless mark like a mandala present from birth, from kapha and blood, is jatumani (called lahsan in the vernacular). Some are auspicious and some inauspicious: the auspicious…
From aggravated blood and pitta, excessive anger, great grief, being heated by fire and sun, constant mental distress and aggravated vata, a black patch appears on the face, called vyanga…
From vata and blood, patches the shape of black gram on the body are masha (wart); flat, very black spots like sesame seeds are tila; painless marks, black or white, small or large, on the…
From pitta, blood and vata, large black patches on the body or face are nilika; the physician treats them with suitable bloodletting, pastes and other calming measures, using his own…
From kapha and the intoxication of youth, eruptions appear on the face, somewhat thick and few, called tarunya pidaka; wise sages say they are overcome with kapha-removing pastes, nasal…
From aggravated vata or an injury, the skin at the mouth of the genital organ hangs down and obstructs the urine, which passes with great difficulty and much pain; this is vartika. The…
In those who hold back the urge to pass stool, aggravated apana vata constricts the skin of the anus and narrows its opening, so that stool passes with great difficulty; this is…
An eruption at the trika (the joint below the spine where three bones meet), neck, hands, flanks and feet, from all doshas aggravated, burning like the flame of a forest fire and deadly…
The many diseases of the breast are examined by dosha and treated; if there is swelling (breast abscess and the like), its unripe, ripening and ripe stages are considered and the treatments…
All the minor diseases described in their various kinds are to be treated, after knowing their causes and features, according to the doshas with the plasters, pastes, bloodletting,…
Vata, pitta and kapha, singly, in pairs or all together, or with blood, aggravated by their own causes and lodged in the various parts of the body, produce bodily, mental, external…
When the pus of a pus-filled wound is not removed by pressing, cleansing and the like, it breaks through skin, flesh, vessels and ligaments and goes deep inside; this is nadivrana (nasur),…
Saffron, sandalwood, red sandalwood, lodhra, kushtha, lac, realgar, orpiment, the two turmerics, lotus stamens, manjishtha, golden ochre and the kakoli group are cooked into ghee with four…
Orpiment, realgar, banyan leaves, white mica and mercury ground well with milk and applied to the face are said to make it like a lotus and attractive to every mind and eye.
The closing verse calls the work a drop from the great ocean of scripture that issued from Jinendra's mouth, full of waves of all substances and principles and bounded by the two shores of…