Eight lip diseases from vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas, blood, injury, flesh and fat, each with its own signs; treated by dosha with plasters, fomentation and bloodletting, or with surgery, cautery and caustic alkali.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- ओष्ठरोगओष्ठप्रकोप
- Hindi
- ओठ के रोग
- English
- Lip diseases (oshtharoga)
Types described in the text
What the text says
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Classification1
Eight kinds of lip disease are said to arise from vata, pitta, kapha, all three together, blood, injury, flesh and fat.
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
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T13
- Record id
- condition_oshtharoga