A vata eyelid disease in which the lashes move into the eye and cause a violent inflammatory disorder.
Also described as
An eyelid disease whose description begins on PDF 373; PDF 374 holds only its closing lines.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पक्ष्मकोप
- Hindi
- पक्ष्मकोप
- English
- Pakshmakopa (lashes turned into the eye)Pakshmakopa
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Signs and symptoms1
The closing lines say the patients rub their eyes and swelling then arises in the white and black parts of the eye; this is called pakshmakopa and is described as a dreadful disease.
How it develops1
From strong aggravation of vata the eyelashes are set moving and constantly enter the eye, producing an inflammatory disorder; this dreadful disease is pakshmakopa.
Prognosis1
Kacha and pakshmakopa, which lies in the eyelid, are listed as the two palliable (yapya) diseases among those born of all three doshas.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The commentary on verse 197 continues on PDF 374, which belongs to task T15; only the part on PDF 373 was used.
- Section starts on PDF 373 (T14 range); verse number 197 inferred from the next verse, 198.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T14, T15
- Record id
- condition_pakshmakopa