Chapter 21 classifies accidental burns into four kinds with their signs and gives a treatment for each, followed by a healing powder and colour restoration.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- दग्धदग्धव्रणअग्निदग्ध
- Hindi
- दग्धजलनाजले का घाव
- English
- Burnsburnsburn wound
- Romanized
- dagdha
Types described in the text
Even burn (samyag-dagdha)
सम्यग्दग्ध / समदग्ध
Black like sesame, hot, not burnt deeply.
Bad burn (durdagdha)
दुर्दग्ध
Many blisters, fierce burning pain, distressing and slow to settle.
Over-burn (atidagdha)
अतिदग्ध / अत्यन्तदग्ध
Fainting, great thirst, heaviness of joints, wasting of limbs, hanging flesh, pain in vessels, ligaments and bones, worms in the wound after a time, slow healing and lasting discolouration.
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification1
Burns occurring otherwise than by planned cautery are said to be of four kinds: sprishta, samyag-dagdha, durdagdha and atidagdha.
Causes1
Fire reaching unctuous materials such as ghee and oil or dry ones such as wood, stone and iron is said to burn quickly and fiercely, causing great pain and many blisters at the burnt spot.
Treatment principle2
Fire too is said to be seen as a medicine for burns and for poison; a quoted line, garbled in this conversion, prescribes heat and hot medicine for burns.
Fire too is said to be suitable as a medicine for अग्निविष; the Sanskrit on PDF 681 has अग्निविषौषधत्वेन.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 12 times on 7 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 67Chapter 5कल्याणकारके / अन्नपानविधि: 67 के द्वारा दग्ध हो, अतिसार रोग से पीडित हो एवं जो थक गए हों ऐसे मनुष्य मुeयूष सेवन कर …
- Book page 451Chapter 20… शीघ्र ही गोल वा बत्ीसा बन जावे, तो इस पाक को खरचिक्कण पाक कहते हैं, (दग्ध पाक निर्गुण होता है)। स्नेह आदिकों के सेवन का प्रमाण स्नेहपरिप्रमाणं …
- Book page 478Chapter 21… म, त्वग्दग्ध मांसदग्ध इस प्रकार दो भेद से विभक्र हैं। त्वग्दग्ध, मांस दग्ध लक्षण त्वग्दग्धेषु विवर्णतातिविविधस्फोटोद्धवश्चर्मसं-। कोचश्चातिविदाह …
- Book page 479Chapter 21… द्र देव ने कहा है। सम्यग्दग्ध के लक्षण को देखकर, विद्वान् चतुर वैद्य, दग्धव्रण में घी लगावें और रोगी को शीत आहार, शीतविहार व शीत औषधि का प्रयोग करें …
- Book page 480Chapter 21×5कल्याणकारके / कर्मचिकित्साधिकार: 480 अन्यथा दग्ध के चतुर्भेद स्पृष्टं चैव समं च दग्धमथवा दुर्दग्धमत्यंतद-। ग्धं चेत् …
- Book page 481Chapter 21… कार के स्फोट (फफोले) आदि उत्पन्न होते हैं। अग्नि के द्वारा जो स्पृष्ट दग्ध कहा है, उसे जानकर शीघ्र ही उसी अग्नि से तपाना चाहिए अर्थात् स्वेदन कर …
- Book page 482Chapter 21×2… बत्वग्भिश्च सुचूर्णिताभिरसकृत् संचूर्णयेिन्नर्णयम्॥ 31॥ भावार्थ : उस दग्धव्रण के रोपणक्रिया करने पर चूर्णप्रयोग करने के योग्य काल जब आवें, क्षमरहित …
Questions and answers
What are the four kinds of accidental burns, and how is a bad burn treated?
Sprishta, samyag-dagdha, durdagdha and atidagdha; a bad burn is sprinkled with lukewarm milk, smeared with ghee and cooling pastes, and its blisters are opened and covered with cool leaves.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The quoted line reads खे कृशाग्निप्रतनं कार्यमुष्णं च भेषजम्; only कार्यमुष्णं च भेषजम् (hot medicine should be applied) is clear.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Surgery and injuriesSkin and hair
- Source pages with records
- 4
- Pages naming it
- 7
- Chapters
- Chapter 21Appendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T23, T29, T30
- Record id
- condition_dagdha