A tridoshic disease in which the black circle of the eye is covered all over with whiteness; described as incurable.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- अक्षिपाकात्यय
- Hindi
- अक्षिपाकात्यय
- English
- Akshipakatyaya (whitening of the black of the eye)
What the text says
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Signs and symptoms1
When the black circle of the eye, affected by the doshas, is covered on all sides by whiteness, it is the disease akshipakatyaya, called unending and born of all three doshas.
Prognosis2
Being born of all three doshas it is incurable, and the physician who knows the doshas should give it up.
The list of incurable diseases born of all three doshas names netrapaka (suppuration of the eye) with nakulandhya, puyasrava and alaji.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The incurable list on PDF 382 says नेत्रपाक; it is taken here as akshipakatyaya, which v206 calls tridoshic and incurable, because akshipaka with and without swelling is listed separately as curable.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T15
- Record id
- condition_akshipakatyaya