Treating mishaps of all procedures
सर्वौषधकर्मव्यापच्चिकित्सित · उत्तरतंत्र
The twenty-third pariccheda opens here. From the next page the running head names its subject: the treatment of complications of all medicinal procedures (sarvaushadhakarmopadrava chikitsadhikara).
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Bowing to Lord Jinendra, whom the lord of the gods worships, the author promises to describe the uttarabasti, with the features of its nozzle, its use, its procedure and the measure of its…
The nozzle (netra) of this basti is said to have the shape of the stalk of a jasmine (malati) flower; with it the procedure for treating the defects of semen and menstrual blood in men and…
The twenty-third pariccheda opens here. From the next page the running head names its subject: the treatment of complications of all medicinal procedures (sarvaushadhakarmopadrava…
Uttarabasti is oily or of decoction. The commentary gives the fat as one pala (four tola) for men, half a pala for women and a quarter pala for girls under twelve, and the decoction as one…
The patient, well oleated and bathed with warm water, drinks a gruel (yavagu) with ghee and milk and passes urine and stool; seated squatting on a knee-high seat with a pillow, he has the…
The uttarabasti with the stated fluids is to be given three or four times, according to the strength of the disease, to calm severe disorders of menstrual blood and semen; the diseases of…
- Signs of semen and menstrual blood vitiated by the doshasवातादि दोष दूषित रजोवीर्य के (रोग) लक्षणConditionp. 542
Semen and menstrual blood vitiated by vata and the other doshas show that dosha's signs and pains; vitiated by blood they smell like a corpse, by kapha and vata they become knotted, by…
After the measured fluid has been introduced the nozzle is drawn out slowly; once the fluid has come back, the patient is fed food with milk and soups (yusha) in the afternoon, which the…
- Prognosis, and treatment of seed disorders from single doshasसाध्यासाध्य विचार और वातादिदोषजन्य वीर्यरोग की चिकित्साPrognosisp. 543
Disorders of semen and menstrual blood from vata, pitta or kapha singly are curable; the corpse-smelling, pus-like, foul and knotted kinds are difficult to cure, and the faeces-smelling…
- Primacy of uttarabasti in seed disorders; treatment of corpse-smelling semenरजोवीर्य के विकार में उत्तरबस्ति का प्रधानत्व व कुणपगंधि वीर्य चिकित्साPrinciplep. 543
Uttarabasti alone is called the proper means of removing the defects of semen and menstrual blood, being especially able to do so. In corpse-smelling semen the patient, purified by emesis…
For semen that is knotted, thick, slimy and pale, ghee prepared with the ash of palasha, khadira and arjuna is drunk; for pus-like semen, ghee prepared with hintala, tala, banyan and patala.
For faeces-smelling semen, excellent ghee prepared with trikatu, triphala, agnimantha, lotus and musta is given; depleted semen is to be increased with the great aphrodisiac preparations…
For the five great disorders of semen, oleation, emesis, purgation, niruha and anuvasana are applied and then the uttarabasti. In disorders of menstrual blood the same procedures up to the…
- Treatment of menstrual disorders from pitta and the other doshasपित्तादि दोषजन्य आर्तवरोग चिकित्साFormulationp. 544
For menstrual blood that is foul-smelling and like pus or marrow, a decoction of devadaru, mango, sarala, agaru and sandalwood is drunk; for knotted menstrual blood from kapha and vata, a…
By this method semen is purified. Semen that is very unctuous, fragrant, sweet, like crystal, like honey and like (white) sesame oil is to be known as pure, and the commentary says…
Pure menstrual blood is red like liquid realgar, the paste of hamsapadi, hare's blood, lac juice or bright saffron, and when washed from a cloth it comes out without staining it; the…
With predominance of pure artava a girl is conceived, with predominance of semen a boy, and with their equality a napumsaka; all this follows the predominant karma of the past, which the…
A man with pure semen who has kept celibacy for a month unites with care with a woman with pure artava from the fourth-day bath onward; the commentary explains that the first three days are…
Experts call the ten days (nights) from the appearance of menstruation the ritukala; some hold it can exist without visible menstruation, and some count sixteen nights. A woman who has just…
Month by month the pregnant woman eats rice with sweet, cooling articles and butter (months one and two), with cow's milk (third), with curd (fourth), with cow's milk (fifth) and with curd…
When delivery is near there is severe pain in the waist and back and much kapha comes with the urine. The woman is then anointed with oil, bathed with warm water and laid on her back with…
As soon as the child is born the membrane on its body is cleaned and its mouth cleansed with rock salt and ghee (licked from a finger to clear phlegm from the throat); the navel cord is…
Then everything this samhita prescribes for nourishing the child is to be done, and the new mother, well anointed with oil, is given a warm gruel (yavagu) with fat and sour taste to drink.
If the placenta does not fall it is removed by hand, or a paste of kalihari (langali) is given to drink or applied to the soles, navel and abdomen, or the vaginal opening is fumigated with…
Once the child and the placenta are out the woman is called sutika; for one month she is given oil massage, nourishing of the vagina (yoni tarpana), drinks and other vata-removing measures…
When the vitiated blood of a newly delivered woman does not flow out properly a severe colic arises, called markala (makkala) shula; it is overcome with the asthapana and anuvasana enemas,…
Uttarabasti is said to overcome the disorders from that vitiated blood, raktapradara, severe painful urination and urinary obstruction, bladder diseases from many doshas, diseases of the…
- Promise to describe smoke, gargles and nasal therapy; the kinds of smokeधूम, कवलग्रह, नस्यविधिवर्णनप्रतिज्ञा और धूम भेदMethodp. 549
From here the text will describe smoking (dhumapana), holding of gargles (kavalagraha) and nasal therapy (nasya), the complications of their improper use and their treatment. Smoke is of…
A reed eight angulas long is wrapped in cloth and smeared with pure guggulu, sarja resin and fat; the commentary adds that it is dried, the reed drawn out, and the wick put in the smoking…
- The prayogika, emetic, purgative and cough-relieving smokesप्रायोगिक, वैरेचनिक व कासघ्न धूम लक्षणFormulationp. 549
A wick made in the same way with cardamom, clove, nagakesara and tamala leaf gives the prayogika smoke; wicks made with emetic drugs, with the many head-purging drugs and with known…
The smoking pipe is 48 angulas long for the prayogika smoke, 32 for the oleating smoke (made with ghee and oil) and 16 for the purgative and cough-relieving smokes; the commentary calls…
- Bore of the smoking pipe and how each smoke is drawnधूमनली के छिद्र का प्रमाण व धूमपान विधिMethodp. 550
The bore of the pipes should let an urad grain through (a footnote: this is at the tip; at the root the hole is as thick as the thumb). The oleating and prayogika smokes are drawn through…
Smoke taken in through the nose is let out through the mouth, and smoke taken in through the mouth is let out through the mouth as well; the commentary says sages learned in the Jaina texts…
Smoke is not to be given to those suffering from fainting, intoxication, giddiness, burning, thirst, heat, raktapitta, fatigue, severe poisoning, grief or fear; to those with pandu,…
The prayogika smoke is to be taken daily after bathing, eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse, passing stool, sneezing, vomiting and cleaning the teeth; the doshas are said to be aggravated…
Smoke is said to clear the senses, gladden the mind and firm the teeth and hair, and to remove breathlessness, cough, sneezing, vomiting, hoarseness, sleep disorder, kacha, delirium and…
Smoke that properly calms a disease is yoga (samyag yoga); use that makes the disease grow is ayoga (a footnote: some say use that fails to calm it); use of suitable drugs in too great a…
Excessive smoking causes constant ringing in the ears, headache, weak sight, loss of taste, burning and thirst; these are overcome with nourishing of the head, nasya and ghee.
The prayogika smoke is used until tears come to the eyes, which is its measure; the other smokes until the doshas come out. The emetic smoke, made with emetic drugs, is smoked after…
Having described smoking, the text turns to gargling (gandusha) and holding a mouthful (kavala) to cleanse the mouth: holding a liquid in the mouth is gandusha, while kavala also involves…
The throat, ears and forehead are first sweated; then a paste of white mustard, trikatu, triphala and turmeric is stirred into salted, sour, lukewarm water and the liquid is held in the…
The mouth is kept full and still until the medicine is enveloped in kapha, and the liquid is spat out when the eyes fill with water and the nose begins to run.
Fresh liquid is taken and the gargle repeated with care until the doshas come out, heaviness of the head goes and hoarseness and other mouth diseases calm; then no more is held, since…
The gargle liquid should fill half the mouth; a full mouth cannot move the liquid about and so does not remove all the doshas. For kavala, dry drugs are taken by the rule of the texts and…
After gargles and kavala, the nasya taught in the samhita is described: though nasya is of four kinds, it is basically of two, the oleating (snehana) and the head-purging (shirovirechana).
Oleating nasya is said to strengthen the throat, blood, head, shoulders and chest and to sharpen the sight; it is used in head disorders caused by vata, loose teeth, falling of hair and…
It is also used in ear diseases, timira, hoarseness, dryness of the mouth, premature greying, for prolonging life and in all mouth diseases arising from pitta and vata, and is called very…
The cheeks, throat, ears and forehead are sweated by warming the hand; with the head tilted down and the nostrils upward, eight drops of lukewarm oil are let into each nostril, sixteen…
Head-purging nasya is used in the many kapha diseases above the collar bone (throat, nose, eyes and so on). Both kinds of nasya are given to a patient who has not eaten, on a day without…
The nasya above is for oleation; a second kind of it is pratimarsha, which has nine times of use and is given at those times by rule. A footnote says oleating nasya is of two kinds, marsha…
Pratimarsha on rising clears the night's waste from nose and mouth and heavy sleepiness; on going out it wards off wind, sun, smoke and dust; after tooth-cleaning it firms the teeth, scents…
Taken in the evening, pratimarsha gives sound sleep through the night and easy waking. Its measure is as much fat (ghee) as, put into the nose, reaches the mouth.
Pratimarsha makes the mouth fragrant and the teeth and hair firm, and removes all diseases of the ears, eyes, mouth and nose and those above the throat and collar bone.
Having described pratimarsha, the text turns to head-purging: medicinal action through the nose is well known as nasya, and head-purging nasya can also be given with dry drugs.
Four drops of the purging liquid go into each nostril as the first, lightest dose; the middle dose is double and the best dose double again. A footnote reports other opinions (four, six and…
Three fixed doses serve the three actions of loosening (utkleda), cleansing (shodhana) and pacifying (samshamana); the physician fixes the dose by the rise of the doshas, since it is the…
When head-purging acts properly, the ears, throat, lips, eyes, mouth, palate and nose are cleansed together with the strong kapha; physicians who know proper and excessive action should aim…
For pradhamana nasya an instrument is made with two tubes shaped like a goat's two teats, four angulas long, like the smoking tube and open at both ends, and the nasya is blown with it.
The signs of proper, deficient and excessive action given for smoking apply also to purgative preparations and nasya, and the treatment for the complications of excessive smoking is to be…
The nasya method has been told in detail. The excellent samhita says that in all diseases medicines are to be used according to the unripe, burning and ripe stages; now the swelling…
Distinct from the many swelling-shaped diseases such as granthi and vidradhi, shopha (shotha, swelling) is a disease with its own features arising in connection with skin and flesh; it may…
Swellings from vata, pitta and kapha show the signs and qualities of their own dosha and the sannipata swelling those of all three; the blood-born swelling resembles the pitta swelling and…
When the doshas in a swelling are very strong, when the treatment used to calm it is wrong, or when no external or internal treatment is given, it does not subside but turns towards…
A swelling with many kinds of severe pain, troubled by great heat, badly discoloured, stretched like an inflated leather bag, painful when standing, walking, sitting or lying, with pain…
A swelling whose pain has calmed, which is soft, not red (white), reduced, itching, with the skin starting to break, pricking pain, wrinkling and a sunken look, in which the pus moves about…
A deep-seated kapha swelling, even when well ripened, may not show all the signs of ripeness, so the physician is sometimes misled into taking it for unripe and does not open and cleanse…
The unripe swelling is calmed with pastes of drugs that pacify the doshas; the burning swelling is ripened by binding on poultices of strong ripening drugs; the ripe swelling is pressed…
Bandages are always tied loose at the joints and eyes; medium at the face, hands and feet, ears, throat, penis, scrotum, back, flanks and chest; and tight at the buttocks, head, thighs and…
A physician who out of ignorance cuts open an unripe swelling thinking it fully ripe, or neglects a fully ripe one thinking it unripe, is called ignorant and a great sinner whom a wise…
Equal parts of mango-kernel powder and iron powder, with triphala powder and nilanjana powder each equal to these, are rubbed with six parts of triphala decoction and two of sesame oil,…
Mango fruits with soft stones, iron powder and jujube are powdered in equal parts; a hundred pala of this powder is mixed with one adhaka of sesame oil and one drona of triphala decoction…
Bhringaraja, iron powder and triphala are powdered in equal parts, stirred into three times as much triphala decoction and set aside (the commentary: in a pot in a heap of grain); in the…
Iron powder (the verse adds licorice and nilanjana) is ground in a mortar into oil prepared with madanaphala, triphala, guduchi, lotus, the bark of milky trees, mahanila and the roots of…
Haritaki fried in oil and kamsa powder in equal parts, roasted iron powder equal to both and nilanjana equal to that are mixed with an equal amount of paste of bhringaraja, mallika,…
- Shyamadi hair-blackening oil, and a second preparation with metal powdersकेशकृष्णीकरण श्यामादि तैलFormulationp. 564
Flowers of shyama, saireyaka, sahachara and black madanaphala, leaves of mahanila and nila, shalaparni, mango kernel, arjuna bark, samudraphala, jujube, the bark of milky trees and iron…
Flowers of gambhari, citron, wood apple, mango, jambu and shaileya, with guduchi, shaivala, mahanila, vanamallika, nili leaves, nilanjana, tuvaraka, kasisa, madanaphala seed, punarnava,…
Seeds of bibhitaki, white sesame, kanguka (the commentary: phul priyangu) and ari (a kind of khadira) are each impregnated three times in turn with the juices of shirisha bark, koranta,…
The author says he has set out, by the rule of the texts and from the tradition of the doctrine, the hair-blackening preparations taught by the siddhas (the commentary: revered teachers and…
The closing verse calls this work a drop drawn from the ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, full of waves of all substances and principles, with two shining shores that…