Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मेदोरोगस्थौल्यअतिस्थौल्यमेदोवृद्धि
- Hindi
- मेदोरोगमोटापाचर्बी बढ़ना
- English
- Obesityobesityoverweight
- Romanized
- medorogasthaulya
What the text says
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Treatment principle3
The stout body is always to be made lean with dry medicines, foods and drinks.
For making the stout lean, those learned in Ayurveda are said to recommend various purgative preparations, the dry, astringent, pungent and bitter groups of medicines, and diet of the same kind.
The kharpari decoction drunk for six months is said to bring even a very fat person to a medium build, as much as is needed.
Other1
A stout body, like a thin one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 1 times on 1 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Metabolic
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Chapter 3Chapter 25
- Extraction tasks
- T02, T28
- Record id
- condition_medoroga