Kamala is said to follow when, soon after fever, burning or pandu subside, the person takes much sour and other unwholesome food, aggravating pitta; it whitens (or yellows) the body with great swelling, and is treated like swelling (shopha), with a jaggery, haritaki, cow urine and iron decoction and a diet of barley and rice.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- कामलाकुम्भकामलाहलीमक
- Hindi
- कामलापीलिया
- English
- Jaundicejaundiceicterus
- Romanized
- kamalapiliya
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Causes1
When a person whose fever, burning, pandu and similar diseases have subsided soon takes much sour and other unwholesome food and conduct, pitta is said to be aggravated and produce kamala.
Signs and symptoms1
Kamala makes the body completely white (or yellow, per the commentary) and causes great swelling, with drowsiness and weakness.
Treatment principle1
The treatment given for swelling (shopha) is said to be always beneficial for kamala patients.
Diet1
Meals of barley and shali rice are said to be beneficial in kamala.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 8 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 74Chapter 6… 6॥ भावार्थ : मूचि्र्छत, अजीर्ण रोग से पीडित, प्यासा मद्य आदि को जिसने पीलिया हो और रेचन लिया हो जिस का शरीर अतिकृश हो, दाह जवर से युक्त हो, गर्भधा …
- Book page 368Chapter 17×4… कफज पाणडु कहें और तीनों वर्ण एक साथ रहें, तो सिन्नपातज समझों। अब आगे कामला रोग के स्वरूप को कहेंगे। कामला निदान प्रशमितजवरदाहनरोःचिरा - दधिक …
- Book page 369Chapter 17×3… कामलाम्॥ अपि च शर्करया त्रिाकटुं तथा। गुडयुतं च गवां पय एव वा॥ 97॥ कामला की चिकित्सा यदिह शोफचिकित्सितमीरितं तदपि कामलिनां सततं हितम्। …
Questions and answers
What does the text give as the cause of kamala?
Taking much sour and other unwholesome food and conduct soon after fever, burning or pandu have subsided, which aggravates pitta.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Liver
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 17
- Extraction tasks
- T17
- Record id
- condition_kamala