A minor disease: boils from excess pitta on the hand, chest, waist, flank, shoulder and armpit, with fever.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- कक्षा
- Hindi
- कक्षा
- English
- Kaksha
What the text says
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Definition1
Boils (visphotaka) from excess pitta arise on the hand, chest (hridaya), waist, flank, shoulder and armpit; when fever accompanies them, it is called kaksha.
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
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 14
- Extraction tasks
- T12
- Record id
- condition_kaksha