Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- विषवेगवेग
- Hindi
- विष के वेगविषवेग
- English
- Stages of poisoning (visha vega)
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Definition1
A footnote defines one matra of time as the time taken to circle the hand once around the knee and snap the fingers.
Classification1
Each time the poison reaches the next dhatu one stage occurs, and because there are seven dhatus there are seven stages, not eight or six.
How it develops3
The verse says the poison, carried by vata from one dhatu to another, produces the successive stages, seven in all.
The commentary says poison stays at the bite site for at most 450 matra units of time.
A footnote explains that the first stage occurs when poison reaches rasa dhatu and the second when it passes from rasa to rakta, and so on.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 4 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 260Chapter 15… प्राप्त होता है। 2. और कनपटी में, तीव्रदाह व सूजन होती है। जिस प्रकार विष के वेग से ग∂ा रुक जाता है, उसी तरह इसमें भी ग∂ा रुक जाता है। यह रोग तीन दिन …
- Book page 420Chapter 19×2… ्थ : विष के तृतीय वेग में नस्य, अंजन व अगद का पान कराना चाहिए। चतुर्थ विषवेग में समस्त अगद घृतहीन करके प्रयोग करना चाहिए। पंचमषष्टवेग चिकित्सा पंच …
- Book page 424Chapter 19… सर्प अपने विषम व ती़ण डाढों से मनुष्यों को काट खाते हैं, उससे उत्पन्न विषवेग का स्वरूप व विकृत दोषजन्य लक्षण, उसके (विष के) योग्य चिकित्सा व साध्य …
Questions and answers
Why does snake poison have exactly seven stages (vega), according to the text?
Because the poison, carried by vata, passes from one dhatu to the next, each passage making one stage, and there are seven dhatus.
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 19
- Extraction tasks
- T21
- Record id
- concept_visha_vega