Kasa is described as vitiated prana vayu joined with udana leaving the mouth with a cracked-bronze sound. It has five kinds; the kshayaja kind is tridoshic and hard to treat.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- कासकासरोग
- Hindi
- कासखांसी
- English
- Coughcoughcoughing
- Romanized
- kasakhansi
Types described in the text
Cough from chest injury
क्षतज कास
Arises after injury to the chest from exertion such as study, with thick bloody discharge.
Cough from tissue wasting
क्षयज कास
The person is weak from tissue loss, has a strong cough and spits blood-red sputum.
What the text says
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Definition1
The text says vitiated prana vayu, joined with udana vayu, leaves the mouth with a sound like a cracked bronze vessel, and this is called kasa.
Classification1
Cough is of five kinds: vataja, pittaja, kaphaja, kshataja and dhatu-kshayaja; the dosha kinds show the features of their dosha.
Prognosis1
Kshayaja cough is said to arise from all three doshas and to be hard to treat.
Questions and answers
What are the five kinds of cough, and which one does the text call hard to treat?
Vataja, pittaja, kaphaja, kshataja and kshayaja; kshayaja cough is tridoshic and hard to treat.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Respiratory
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 16
- Extraction tasks
- T16
- Record id
- condition_kasa