Bala graha is described as the seizure of children by grahas, each with its own signs and its own baths, oils, ghee, fumigations, amulets and offerings.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- बालग्रहबालरोगग्रहबाधा
- Hindi
- बालग्रहबच्चों के रोगबच्चों को दौरे
- English
- Childhood graha afflictionschildhood afflictionspaediatric disordersconvulsions in children
- Romanized
- balagraha
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Causes2
Children who are frightened in many ways (for instance with 'look, a ghost has come, be quiet'), repeatedly beaten and troubled, or brought up in dirty or deserted houses are said to be overpowered by grahas.
Children of impure conduct, lacking auspicious protective things and affected by the mother's faults are seized by Kinnara and other cruel grahas.
Treatment principle2
A child seized by a graha is to be calmed with homa, fumigation, bali offerings, mandalas, yantras and the medicines of the bhuta-tantra that drive spirits away.
Children's diseases are treated with the same drug combinations used for adults, chosen by the aggravated doshas, with the dose fitted to age, strength and dosha.
Regimen1
The newborn is to be protected, while auspicious rites such as jatakarma are performed, with various medicines and with yantra, tantra and mantra procedures.
Contraindications1
Children's diseases are not to be treated with cautery, purgation, caustic alkali, surgery, emesis and the like; curable diseases are treated with suitably mild measures.
Other1
Examination: the child's form and bodily behaviour are observed and the wet nurse is questioned to find whether a spirit disorder (balagraha) is present; if so, its full treatment is given.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 9 times on 5 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 36Front matter… मंगराज का खगेन्द्रमणिदर्पण, अभिनवचंद्र हृदयशास्त्र, देवेन्द्र मुनि का बालग्रह चिकित्सा, अमृतनंदि का वैद्यक निघंटु, जगदेक महामंत्रवादि श्रीधरदेव का …
- Book page 209Chapter 12×4… शरीर चेष्टा को देखकर एवं उसके विषय में दाई से पूछकर भूत विकार अर्थात् बालग्रह रोग की परीक्ष करें। यादि बालग्रह मैजूद हो तो उसकी सम्पूर्ण चिकित्सा क …
- Book page 391Chapter 18×2… को, कुपित महा गृह (देवता) प्रवेश करते हैं अर्थात् कष्ट पहुँचाते हैं। बालग्रह के कारण बालकानिह बहुप्रकारतस्तर्जितानपि च ताडितान्मुहु:। त्रासितानशुच …
- Book page 396Chapter 18कल्याणकारके / बालग्रहभूततंत्राधिकार: 396 भावार्थ : बालग्रह के उपचार को जानने वाला वैद्यवर पूतनाविष्ट बालक को शून्य मकान अथवा किस …
- Book page 403Chapter 18… दूर करें, ये ग्रह अत्यन्त क्रूर एवं कष्ट से जीते जाते हैं, इस प्रकार बालग्रह भी कष्ट साध्य कहा गया है। शरीर में ग्रहों के प्रभुत्व ग्रहामयात्यद्धु …
Questions and answers
Which treatments does chapter 12 forbid for children's diseases?
Cautery, purgation, caustic alkali, surgery, emesis and the like; mild measures are used instead.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich ways of treating children does the text say expose them to grahas?
Frightening them in many ways (for example with talk of ghosts), beating them repeatedly, terrifying them, and bringing them up in dirty or deserted houses.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat kinds of measures make up the treatment of the child grahas?
Baths in herb decoctions, oil massage, medicated ghee to drink, fumigation, herbal amulets and garlands, offerings (bali) and mantras.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Child health
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 5
- Chapters
- Chapter 12Chapter 18
- Extraction tasks
- T10, T19
- Record id
- condition_balagraha