A minor disease from all three doshas: a burning eruption at the trika, neck, hands, flanks and feet, declared untreatable, with death within about fifteen days.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- अग्निरोहिणी
- Hindi
- अग्निरोहिणी
- English
- Agnirohini
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
An eruption at the trika (the joint where three bones meet below the spine), neck, hands, flanks and feet, arising from all doshas aggravated, with burning like the flame of a forest fire and deadly like Yama, is called agnirohini.
Prognosis1
It is very dreadful; the physician should leave it and not treat it, and the patient will live fifteen days at most. The verse says it ends within a fortnight.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 2 times on 1 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
Questions and answers
What prognosis does the text give for agnirohini?
It is to be left untreated; the patient lives fifteen days at most.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Chapter 14
- Extraction tasks
- T12
- Record id
- condition_agnirohini