Alasaka is one of the disorders said to follow indigestion, marked by a full abdomen, listlessness, vomiting, upward-moving wind and retention of stool and urine with severe pain.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- अलसकविलम्बिकाविलंबिका
- Hindi
- अलसकविलम्बिकाबिलम्बिका
- English
- Alasakaalasakaintestinal torporVilambika (arrested indigestion)
- Romanized
- alasaka
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Signs and symptoms2
The verse lists a feeling of a full abdomen, great listlessness, vomiting, thirst, wind moving upward with gurgling, retention of stool, severe pain and loss of taste as the special signs of alasaka.
The commentary adds that the wind, blocked below, wanders up to the throat and other places, and that both stool and urine are held back.
How it develops1
Through severe obstruction by kapha and vata, the food eaten goes neither down nor up, with neither purging nor vomiting, and stays completely stuck.
Prognosis3
Alasaka is said to be very difficult to cure.
Vilambika is described as extremely dreadful and destructive of human life.
The text says vilambika is to be given up promptly (परिहरेत्).
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 11 times on 2 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 352Chapter 17×9कल्याणकारके / क्षुद्ररोगाधिकार: 352 अजीर्ण से अलसक विलम्बिका विशूचिका की उत्पत्ति अलसकं च विलंविकया सह। प्रवरतीव्ररूजा …
- Book page 354Chapter 17×2… बिकां॥ अपि विषूचिकया परिपीडितानिह जयेदतिसारचिकित्सितै:॥ 35॥ भावार्थ : अलसक रोग अत्यन्त कष्ट साध्य है। विलम्बिका को भी शीघ्र छोड देना चाहिए। विशू …
Questions and answers
What are the three kinds of ajirna, and which dosha does the footnote link to each?
Ama ajirna (food stays raw and sweet) from kapha, vidagdha (food turns sour) from pitta, and vishtabdha (severe pain, distension, retained stool) from vata.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The lexicon lists विलम्बिका as an alias of condition_alasaka, but the text describes it as a separate disorder with its own signs.
- Merged from condition_vilambika.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Digestive
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 2
- Chapters
- Chapter 17
- Extraction tasks
- T17
- Record id
- condition_alasaka