The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.
Also described as
The text counts seventy-six eye diseases by dosha, sorts them into curable, palliable and incurable, and assigns each group a kind of treatment.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- नेत्ररोगअक्षिरोगनयनरोगदृष्टिरोग
- Hindi
- नेत्ररोगआंख के रोगनेत्र रोग
- English
- Eye disorderseye disorderseye diseasesophthalmic disorders
- Romanized
- netrarogaakshiroga
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification6
There are seventy-six harmful diseases that afflict the eyes, which the physician should treat with careful thought.
Seventeen diseases occurring in the whole eye, those described from abhishyanda onwards, have been told; the physician should overcome them by the treatment given for abhishyanda.
The diseases of all the junctions (sandhi) of the eye are of nine kinds; a footnote lists puyalasa, kaphopanaha, four discharges, parvani, alaji and krimigranthi.
After the junction diseases the text describes the eyelid (vartma) diseases with their dosha types, forms, names, number and treatment.
Eye diseases are counted as ten each from vata and pitta, thirteen from kapha, sixteen from blood, twenty-five from all three doshas and two from external causes, seventy-six in all.
By treatment, eleven eye diseases are to be excised, five incised, nine scraped and fifteen punctured; twelve are not for the knife but for medicines, seven are palliable by oleation and similar measures, fifteen are to be given up, and the two external ones are sometimes palliable and sometimes incurable.
Causes1
Causes listed: entering water when overheated, fixed posture, change of seasons, sweat or much walking, excess intercourse, loss of sleep, gazing at minute objects, dust and smoke, overexertion, suppressing tears, excessive dryness of the head, very dry food, holding back faeces, urine and flatus, and eating much onion, mustard, garlic and fresh ginger.
Treatment principle4
Having described all eye diseases briefly with their signs, the text says a skilled physician should treat them by rule with all the special procedures and medicines.
Knowing which of the seventy-six eye disorders are curable, palliable or incurable, the physician should treat them with excision and other procedures, strong medicines and pacifying measures.
Twelve eye diseases are to be treated by rule with suitable medicines and not with surgery, and the two external diseases are likewise to be calmed with medicines alone.
All pitta-born eye diseases are to be treated with cooling measures by the physician who knows eye treatment.
Prognosis1
Fifteen eye diseases are incurable and to be given up: hatadhimantha, nimesha, gambhirika and vatahata vartma of vata; raktasrava, ajakajata, shonitarsha and savrana shukra of blood; puyasrava, nakulandhya, akshipakatyaya and alaji of all three doshas; kaphasrava of kapha; hrasvajatya and jalasrava of pitta.
Anatomy1
Eye diseases have three kinds of seats: five circles (mandala), six junctions (sandhi) and six layers (patala).
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 18 times on 16 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 8Front matter… से उस गर्भाशय को सीकर सुरक्षित करने का कठिन विधान भी सुश्रुत में है। नेत्ररोग के प्रति ही अनेक प्रकार के शस्त्रकर्मो का विधान सुश्रुत ने बहुत अच्छी …
- Book page 136Chapter 9… छींक आना, शरीर भारी हो जाना, रोमांच होना यह सब जवरों के पूर्वरूप हैं। नयनरोग (आँख आना आदि) नेत्र शरीर में अरुचित होना, यह कफ जवर का पूर्वरूप है। व …
- Book page 285Chapter 15… ि यदि नेत्र न हो तो वह मनुष्य अंधकार से घिरे हुए एक वृक्ष के समान है। नेत्ररोग की संख्या ततस्तु तद्रक्षाणमेव शोभनं। यथार्थनेत्रोंद्रियबाधक …
- Book page 290Chapter 15×2… ुष्यों की आँख में पित्त से उत्पन्न अतएव अत्यन्त दाह से युक्त कितने ही नेत्ररोग उत्पन्न होते हैं। इसलिए इन सब को, शीतल चिकित्सा द्वारा अथवा पैक्रिक र …
- Book page 304Chapter 15… से रक्त के समान लाल पानी गिरता है, यह अजक या भाजक (अजकजात) नामक भयंकर नेत्र रोग जानना चाहिए। कृष्णगतरोगों के उपसंहार इमे च चत्वार। उदीरिता गदा:। स् …
- Book page 309Chapter 15… पुनरिह पंच बाह्यजै द्वै॥ 230॥ भावार्थ : वात आदि प्रत्येक दोष से दस-दस नेत्र रोग उत्पन्न होते हैं। इनमें भी कफ से तीन अधिक होते हैं। तात्पर्य यह हुआ क …
- Book page 310Chapter 15… ंजननामिका, शिरा जाल, शिराहर्ष, शिरोत्पात, ये (रक्त से उत्पन्न) ग्यारह नेत्र रोग साध्य होते हैं, जिनके लक्षण पहिले प्रतिपादन कर चुके हैं। सिन्नपातज अस …
- Book page 311Chapter 15… चादशैव भिषजा परिवर्जनीया:। बाह्यो कदाचिदिह याप्यतरावसाध्यै॥ भावार्थ : नेत्र रोग में ग्यारह रोग छेद्य (छेदन कर्म करने योग्य) पाँच रोग, भेद्य (भेदन योग …
- Book page 313Chapter 15… श्य घृतलिप्तमत: प्रबंधै:॥ 253॥ भावार्थ : नेत्र का अभिघात होकर उत्पन्न नेत्ररोग में यदि नेत्र स्वस्थान से भिन्न नहीं हुआ हो और उसी में अवलंबित हो, तो …
- Book page 314Chapter 15… भावार्थ : पित्तविकार से उत्पन्न समस्त रोगों को शीतल विधानों के द्वारा नेत्ररोग की चिकित्सा को जाननेवाला वैद्य उपचार करें। ढाक की गोंद को दूध के साथ …
- Book page 316Chapter 15×2… ं। सोष्णैर्जयेद्यदि च तीव्ररुजासुतीव्रान्॥ 267॥ भावार्थ : रक्तज तीव्र नेत्ररोग यदि तीव्र पीडा से युक्त हो तो स्निग्ध शीतल उष्ण औषधि समूह व गुड इनके …
- Book page 318Chapter 15… रमुखेन यत्नात्। तान्साध्येदभिहिताखिलतप्तयोगै:॥ 274॥ भावार्थ : बहुत से नेत्र रोग शस्त्रक्तिया से साध्य होने वाले हैं। उनको आँख में घृत लेपन करके उष्ण …
Questions and answers
What does the text advise doing with the hands right after a meal, and what is it said to achieve?
Wash the hands, rub them together, touch the eyes with the wet hands and rub the face lightly; this is said to help the eyes and make the face radiant.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat are the seats of eye diseases and how many of each are there?
Five circles (mandala), six junctions (sandhi) and six layers (patala).
Detailed answer and sourcesHow many eye diseases does the text count, and how are they divided by cause?
Seventy-six: ten from vata, ten from pitta, thirteen from kapha, sixteen from blood, twenty-five from all three doshas and two from external causes.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich eye diseases does the text say should be excised?
Eleven: the five kinds of arma, sirajapidaka, sirajala, arbuda, shushkarsha, arsho vartma and parvani.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
- Chapter 15 · p. 285 · v. 124
- Chapter 15 · p. 286 · v. 125-126
- Chapter 15 · p. 286 · v. 127
- Chapter 15 · p. 296 · v. 169
- Chapter 15 · p. 296 · v. 171
- Chapter 15 · p. 297 · v. 177
- Chapter 15 · p. 309 · v. 229
- Chapter 15 · p. 309 · v. 230-231
- Chapter 15 · p. 311 · v. 244
- Chapter 15 · p. 311 · v. 245
- Chapter 15 · p. 312 · v. 250-251
- Chapter 15 · p. 313 · v. 252
- Chapter 15 · p. 314 · v. 258
Extraction notes
- Footnotes on p.358 give the variant readings चक्रमणाच्चा (for संक्रमणाच्चा) and बिन्दुघट्टनात्.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Eye and ENT
- Source pages with records
- 9
- Pages naming it
- 16
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T14, T15
- Record id
- condition_netraroga