Pandu is described in four kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three) sharing pallor and told apart by colour: black, yellow, white or all three. It is treated by purification followed by licked powders with ghee, an avaleha of vidanga and other drugs, and simple remedies.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पाण्डुपाण्डुरोग
- Hindi
- पांडु रोगखून की कमीपांडुपीलापन
- English
- Anaemiaanaemiaanemiapallor
- Romanized
- pandupanduroga
Types described in the text
Vata pandu
वातज पाण्डु
Urine, veins, face, eyes, stool and nails black; other vata complications.
Pitta pandu
पित्तज पाण्डु
The same parts yellow; other pitta complications.
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Classification1
Four kinds of pandu arise from vata, pitta, kapha and their combination; all share pallor, while each also shows signs according to its doshas.
Signs and symptoms1
In the vata type the urine, veins, face, eyes, stool and nails are black; in the pitta type these are yellow; in the kapha type white; and in the combined type all three colours appear.
Treatment principle1
The pandu patient is first purified with emesis, purgation and the like before the medicines are given.
Prognosis1
A pandu patient who sees many yellow things in dreams is said to surely die.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 5 times on 4 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 113Chapter 8… तरक्तगुणमत्रा न स्वेदयेत्॥ 32॥ भावार्थ : क्षत व उष्ण से पीडित, तृषित, पांडु व मेहरोग के रोगी को उपवास किए हुए को, रक्तपित्ी को, अतिसारी को, जलोदर …
- Book page 115Chapter 8… गुल्मरोगी, तिमिररोगी, रक्तपित्त, अर्दित, आक्षेपक, प्रमेह, बहुत पुराना पांडुरोग, बवासीर और क्षतोदर से पीडित व्यक्ति को एवं रूक्ष शरीर वाले को, गर्भिण …
- Book page 368Chapter 17×2… िन्न लक्षण भी मिलते हैं)ऐसे चार प्रकार के पाणडु रोगों को कहेंगे। वातज पांडुरोग लक्षण असितमूत्रासिराननलोचनं। मनखान्यसितानि च यस्य वै। मरुदुपद्रवपीड …
- Book page 491Chapter 21… त्यधिक रक्त निकाल दिया जाये तो बात व्याधि, क्षय, श्वास, खांसी, हिचकी, पांडुरोग, उन्माद (पागलपना) शिर में संताप आदि रोग उत्पन्न होते हैं एवं उससे शीघ …
Questions and answers
What does the text give as the cause of kamala?
Taking much sour and other unwholesome food and conduct soon after fever, burning or pandu have subsided, which aggravates pitta.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich dreams does chapter 20 treat as signs of death in particular diseases, and which dreams does it call fruitless?
Many red things for raktapitta, yellow for pandu, white for kapha and reddish for vata patients, and befriending a monkey for a wasting patient; dreams that follow one's nature, habit or repeated thoughts are fruitless.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- General wellness
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 4
- Chapters
- Chapter 17Chapter 20
- Extraction tasks
- T17, T22
- Record id
- condition_pandu