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Conditionरोग

Swelling under the tongue (jihvalasaka)

जिह्वालसक

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A large, little-painful swelling under the tongue from kapha and pitta; when the doshas ripen the tongue cannot move. Treated by scraping and rubbing with drugs.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
जिह्वालसकअलस
Hindi
जिह्वालसक
English
Swelling under the tongue (jihvalasaka)

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Signs and symptoms1

  • From kapha and pitta the lower part of the tongue swells greatly though the pain is slight; this is jihvalasaka, and when the doshas ripen the tongue can no longer be moved.

    Chapter 15 · p. 272 · v. 62Hindi commentaryTraditional description

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Quick facts

Content type
Condition
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
3
Chapters
Chapter 15
Extraction tasks
T13
Record id
condition_jihvalasaka