Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- साध्यअसाध्ययाप्यकृच्छ्रसाध्यसुखसाध्य
- Hindi
- असाध्ययाप्यसाध्यठीक होने योग्य
- English
- Prognosisprognosiscurableincurablemanageable
- Romanized
- sadhyaasadhyayapya
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Definition2
Diseases that are held in check by continued use of suitable medicine and wholesome diet, so that they do not take life at once, but kill in the course of time, being incurable, are called manageable (yāpya); those that take life at once are called incurable, that is untreatable (anupakrama).
Diseases that subside only when treated with great effort, much arrangement and great formulations are to be known as hard to cure (kṛcchrasādhya); one that is calmed with little effort, in a short time and by few medicines is easy to cure (sukhasādhya).
Classification1
Diseases are said to be divided into two, incurable (asādhya) and curable (sādhya), as the commentary says Bhagavān Samantabhadra Svāmī taught; the incurable are of two kinds, untreatable (anupakrama) and manageable (yāpya), and the curable are very hard to cure (ati-kṛcchrasādhya) and very easy to cure (ati-sukhasādhya).
Note: The verse itself names Samantabhadra (समंतभद्रै:); verse 61 sums these up as four kinds of disease.
Treatment principle2
Therefore diseases, which destroy precious life as quickly as fire or a snake, should always be set right promptly with proper treatment.
Among the vata diseases described with their signs, the physician skilled in treatment is told to decide first which are curable and which incurable, and to cure the curable ones with the medicines told and to be told.
Cautions1
When treating such incurable states, the physician should state this clearly before beginning treatment; otherwise, the commentary adds, he earns disrepute.
Prognosis2
The text says curable diseases are to be cured with medicines and the like, manageable (yapya) diseases kept in check with skilled procedures, and incurable diseases that are hard to understand and hard to treat declared incurable and given up.
If diseases are not treated promptly and properly by the method of the texts, the easily curable are said to become hard to cure, the hard to cure manageable, the manageable untreatable, and the untreatable destroy life at once; the commentary attributes this to Ācārya Pūjyapāda of old.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 152 times on 61 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 102Chapter 7×6… से महान् भयंकर रोग भी ऊपर से अल्प रूप से दिख सकते हैं एवं अल्परोग भी असाध्य रोग के समान दिख सकते है, परन्तु चतुर सिद्धहस्त वैद्य को उचित है कि यु …
- Book page 103Chapter 7×9… गी का सद्य प्राण घात नहीं करते हैं) और कालांतर में प्राणघात करते हैं, असाध्य होते हैं, वे याप्य कहलाते हैं। तत्काल प्राणों का जो हरण करते हैं उनको …
- Book page 108Chapter 8×9… ों का पचन ठीक क्रम से नहीं निकलता है। अक्रम होकर निकलता है। अर्दित का असाध्य लक्षण व पक्षघात की समाप्ति व लक्षण त्रिावर्षकृतवेपमानशिरसशिचराद्धषिणो …
- Book page 112Chapter 8×3… के विकार से अपने-अपने नाम के समान पाद में अनेक रोग होते हैं। वातरक्त असाध्य लक्षण स्फुटं स्फुटति भिन्नसासृतरसं तथा जानुतस्तदेतदिह वातशोणितमसाध्यम …
- Book page 128Chapter 9×3… ्ी रोगी बहुत प्रलाप कर रहा हो, मूर्छा से युक्त हो तो ऐसे रक्तपित्त को असाध्य जानना चाहिए। ऐसे रोगी जल्दी नाश होते हैं। साध्यासाध्य विचार साध्यं तद …
- Book page 131Chapter 9×2… अथवा लालचन्दन, नागरमोथा खश इनके कषाय से स्नान कराना चाहिए। रक्तपित्त असाध्य लक्षण सश्वासकासबलनाशमदजवरार्त। मूर्छाभिभूतमविपाकविदाहयुक्तम्॥ त …
- Book page 132Chapter 9×2… ित्सा एवं वातरक्त के लिए कथित औषधियों का प्रयोग करना चाहिए। विसर्प का असाध्य लक्षण। स्फोटान्वितं विविधतीव्ररुजा विदाह-मत्यर्थरक्तमतिकृष्णमतीवपीतम् …
- Book page 138Chapter 9×3कल्याणकारके / पित्तरोगाधिकार: 138 सिन्नपात जवर का असाध्य लक्षण सर्वजवरेषु कथिताखिललक्षण तं। सर्वैरुपद्रवगणैरपि संप्रयुक्तम्। ह …
- Book page 144Chapter 9×2… ार कहते हैं। इससे विपरीत लक्षण वाले को पक्वातिसार कहते हैं। अतिसार का असाध्य लक्षण शोकादतिप्रवलशोणितमिश्रमुष्ण-। माधमानशूलसहितं मलमुत्सृजंतम्॥ तृष …
- Book page 157Chapter 10×4… िकार: 157 भावार्थ : साध्य रोगों को औषधादिक प्रयोग से साधन करना चाहिए। याप्य रोगों को कुशल क्रियायों के द्वारा याप्य करना चाहिए। दुर्विर्ोय व दुशि …
- Book page 162Chapter 11… ास होना, मुख के सूखना ये सब वातप्रमेह में होने वाले उपद्रव है। प्रमेह असाध्य लक्षण वसाघृतक्षैद्रनिभं स्रवंति ये। मदांधगंधेभजलप्रवाहवत्॥ सृजंति …
- Book page 166Chapter 11कल्याणकारके / महामयाधिकार: 166 भावार्थ : जिसका रोग कृच्छ्रसाध्य है, ऐसा प्रमेही यदि कुलीन हो एवं धनहीन हो तो उसे ग्राम नगरादिक को छोड …
Questions and answers
Which diarrhoea patients does the text call very hard to treat and to be given up?
The very young, the very old, the emaciated, the weak and the consumptive, and those whose stool looks like ghee, spleen, fat, liver, oil, water, milk, curd or buttermilk.
Detailed answer and sourcesAccording to chapter 10, how should a physician deal with curable, manageable and incurable diseases?
Cure the curable with medicines, keep the manageable in check with skilled procedures, and declare the incurable as incurable and give them up.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does the text classify diseases by curability?
Into curable and incurable; the curable are hard to cure or easy to cure, the incurable are manageable (yāpya) or untreatable (anupakrama), four kinds in all.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat does the text say happens when treatment is delayed or not done properly?
Each disease slides one class worse: easy becomes hard, hard becomes manageable, manageable becomes untreatable, and the untreatable kills at once.
Detailed answer and sourcesBy what signs is a prameha patient known to be free of the disease, and when is he called incurable?
He is free when he passes urine that is clear, very bitter, dry, alkaline, slightly warm and not turbid, only now and then and in small amounts.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich kushthas does the text treat as curable, manageable or incurable?
Kushtha in the skin, blood and flesh is curable with medicines; in the fat it is only manageable; the rest, in bone, marrow and semen, does not heal even with panchakarma.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich signs mark hemiplegia (pakshaghata) as incurable in chapter 12?
A swollen and numb body, distension, a bent and trembling body, excessive vata, absence of pain and wasted limbs.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhen does the text say a urinary stone yields to medicine, and when does it call for surgery?
A soft stone is cured by medicines; a hard, grown stone is broken open with care and removed, that is, by surgery.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does the text judge the curability of disorders of semen and menstrual blood?
Disorders from vata, pitta or kapha singly are curable and are overcome with oleation, sudation and similar procedures; the corpse-smelling, pus-like, foul and knotted kinds are difficult to cure; the faeces-smelling kind is called incurable.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Categories
- Prognosis
- Source pages with records
- 5
- Pages naming it
- 61
- Chapters
- Chapter 7Chapter 10Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T06, T07, T10
- Record id
- concept_sadhya_asadhya