Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- चतुर्विध कर्म
- Hindi
- चार प्रकार के कर्म
- English
- Four kinds of treatment procedure
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification1
To pacify all groups of disease four kinds of procedure are named: fire (agnikarma, cautery), the knife (shastrakarma, surgery), caustic alkali (ksharakarma) and medicine (aushadhakarma).
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 3 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 445Chapter 20… ्रशमन करने के लिए अग्निकर्म, शस्त्रकर्म, क्षरकर्म, औषधकर्म, इस प्रकार चतुर्विध कर्म कहा गया है। स्नेहनादि कर्मकृत मत्योँ को पथ्यापथ्य स्नेहनतापनोक्रवमनात …
- Book page 474Chapter 21… य आदि दशाओं को जानने वाला वैद्य, साध्यरोगों का चिकित्सा से साधन करें। चतुर्विध कर्म जन्य आपत्ति तेषामेव सुकर्मणां सुविहितानामप्युपेक्ष क्रिया। स्वरानादथ …
- Book page 562Chapter 23… ोपमा-। न्कतुँ सत्यतमोरुभेषजगणैराल़यते सत्क्रिया॥ 87॥ भावार्थ : इस तरह चार प्रकार के कर्म व उनके (अतियोगादि होने पर उत्पन्न आपत्तियों के) प्रतिविधान (चिकित्सा) …
Questions and answers
How does chapter 20 arrive at sixty therapeutic measures, and which four kinds of procedure does it name?
Fifty-three listed measures plus the second forms of seven measures that act both by cleansing and by healing make sixty; the four procedures are cautery, surgery, caustic and medicine.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 20
- Extraction tasks
- T22
- Record id
- concept_chaturvidha_karma