A minor disease: five or six nodular eruptions from kapha and vata, with a closed middle raised like a tortoise's back.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- कच्छपिका
- Hindi
- कच्छपिकाकच्छपपिटका
- English
- Kacchapika (tortoise-shaped eruption)
What the text says
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Definition1
From kapha and vata, eruptions in the form of five or six nodules whose middle is not open but raised like a tortoise's back are called kacchapapitaka (kacchapika).
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 7 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 160Chapter 11×2… क्त होता है। दशविध प्रमेहपिटका: शराविका सर्षपिका सजालिनी। सपुत्रिणी कच्छपिका मसूरिका॥ विदारिका विद्रधिकालजी मता। प्रमेहिणां स्यु:पिटका दशैव ता:॥11 …
- Book page 161Chapter 11×2कल्याणकारके / महामयाधिकार: 161 पुत्रिणी, कच्छपिका, मसूरिका लक्षण ससू़मकाभि: पिटकाभिरन्विता। प्रव़यते सा महती सपुत्रिणी। …
- Book page 251Chapter 14×3… िशाल, खुले (फटा) मुख वाला जो मंडल (चकता) होता है, उसे विवृत कहते हैं। कच्छपिका वल्मीक लक्षण कफपवनविकारात्पंचषगड्ंग्रथिरूपे। परिवृत्तमतिमध्यं कच्छपाख …
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 14
- Extraction tasks
- T12
- Record id
- condition_kacchapika