Udana vata with excessive kapha fills and blocks the nasal passage; treated quickly with medicated smoke, nasal drops and uttarabasti.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- नासाप्रतिनाह
- Hindi
- नाक बंद होना
- English
- Nasal blockage (nasapratinaha)
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
How it develops1
Udana vata, with kapha greatly aggravated, comes into the nostrils and stays filling them, blocking the nasal passage; this is called nasapratinaha.
Treatment principle1
It is overcome quickly with medicated smoke, nasal drops and uttarabasti; the commentary adds 'or uttamanga-basti' (basti for the head).
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
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T13
- Record id
- condition_nasapratinaha