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Painful urination (mutrakricchra)

मूत्रकृच्छ्र (पेशाब में कष्ट) · मूत्रकृच्छ्र

Extracted from the text6 references

Mutrakricchra is presented as eight further kinds of urinary obstruction (ghata read as kricchra, difficult passing) arising from the three doshas, their combination, injury, faeces, gravel and stone; it is treated with daily uttara basti after purification and many oral remedies.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
मूत्रकृच्छ्र
Hindi
मूत्रकृच्छ्रपेशाब में कष्टपेशाब में जलनरुक रुक कर पेशाबपेशाब में दर्द
English
Painful urinationdysuriapainful urination
Romanized
mutrakricchramutrakrichra

Types described in the text

Vata type

वातज

Severe pain in groin, bladder and penis; repeated scanty urine (footnote).

Pitta type

पित्तज

Painful burning; yellow or red urine passed often with difficulty (footnote).

Kapha type

कफज

Heavy, swollen penis and bladder; slimy urine (footnote).

Combined type

सन्निपातज

Signs of all three doshas.

Injury type

अभिघातज

From instrument wounds or blows to the urinary channels; signs like the vata type.

Faecal type

शकृज

Retained stool aggravates vata; colic and distension.

Stone type

अश्मरीज

Signs described in the chapter on ashmari.

Gravel type

शर्कराज

Like the stone type; passing gravel brings heart pain, trembling, colic, weakness, weak digestion and fainting.

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Definition1

  • A footnote explains that here the teachers take the word ghata to mean kricchra, urine passing with difficulty.

    Chapter 17 · p. 358 · v. 58FootnoteTraditional description

Classification1

  • Eight kinds are named: from vata, pitta, kapha and their combination, from injury, from faeces, from gravel and from stone.

    Chapter 17 · p. 359 · v. 59Sanskrit verseTraditional description

Signs and symptoms2

  • Injury to the urinary channels by an instrument or a blow gives signs like the vata type, and obstructed stool aggravates vata, producing mutrakricchra with colic and distension.

    Chapter 17 · p. 359 · v. 60-61Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • A footnote gives the vata type as severe pain in the groin, bladder and penis with repeated scanty urine; the pitta type as painful burning with yellow or red urine passed often and with difficulty; and the kapha type as a heavy, swollen penis and bladder with slimy urine.

    Chapter 17 · p. 359 · v. 60-61FootnoteTraditional description

Treatment principle1

  • The patient's body is to be purified daily and uttara basti then applied.

    Chapter 17 · p. 360 · v. 62Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 11 times on 6 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
Kidney and urinary
Source pages with records
3
Pages naming it
6
Chapters
Chapter 17
Extraction tasks
T17
Record id
condition_mutrakricchra