Pitta is said to be aggravated by pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and alcohol, and to cause fainting, burning, drying, blisters, delirium and thirst; spread through the body it causes fever, giddiness, raktapitta and diarrhoea. The person with excess pitta has red face and eyes, harsh speech, love of cold and a yellowish body. Treatment is mainly cooling, with emesis for severe pitta and pacifying preparations after purification.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पित्तरोगपित्तव्याधिपित्तामयपित्तविकार
- Hindi
- पित्त रोगपित्त विकार
- English
- Pitta disorderspitta disorderspitta diseases
- Romanized
- pittaroga
What the text says
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Causes1
Constant excessive use of pungent, sour, dry, salty, hot and burning foods and of alcohol is said to aggravate pitta.
Signs and symptoms2
Aggravated pitta is said to give rise to fainting, burning, drying, blisters, delirium, thirst and similar diseases.
The person with excess pitta has red face and eyes, speaks harshly, looks fierce, loves cold, desires sweet and tasty food, has a yellowish body and is very irascible.
How it develops2
Wherever aggravated pitta stays it burns that place and causes diseases there; spread through the whole body it causes burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, raktapitta, diarrhoea and many other diseases.
Pitta is said to be the necessary cause of diarrhoea, burning, thirst, fever, giddiness, intoxication, heat and drying, which are named by the dominant dosha when vata or kapha are also involved.
Treatment principle3
To pacify pitta, cooling measures are mainly to be used.
When pitta is greatly aggravated, emesis is induced with a cold emetic water, followed by cold gruel with ghee and milk.
In those whose bodies have been purified by emesis and purgation, pitta is then to be calmed with the pacifying preparations described.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 5 times on 5 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 68Chapter 5… े, तो कफ और वात विकार को दूर करने वाला है। गरम करके ठणडा किया हुआ दूध पित्तविकार को शमन करता है। बाकी अवस्था में अनेक विषम रोगों के उत्पन्न होने के लि …
- Book page 125Chapter 9… े के लिए कारण ऐसे श्री जिनेन्द्र भगवंत को नमस्कार कर दोषों के क्रम से पित्तरोग के उपशमन विधि को प्रशम आदि गुण जिनमें अधिक पाया जाता है, उन मनुष्यों …
- Book page 134Chapter 9… ल्क, खांड और घी मिलाकर पीने से, शीघ्र ही वातरक्त, रक्तपित्त आदि समस्त पित्तविकार नाश हो जाते हैं। टुंटुकादि दुग्ध टुंटूकपीलु वृहती द्वय पाट लाग्नि-मंथ …
- Book page 314Chapter 15… लया श्रृतमाजयमिश्रं। पेयं भवेद्धतमलं न तु शुक्रिकायां॥ 259॥ भावार्थ : पित्तविकार से उत्पन्न समस्त रोगों को शीतल विधानों के द्वारा नेत्ररोग की चिकित्सा …
- Book page 347Chapter 17… सततं वदेत्॥ 3॥ भावार्थ : वातविकार से शरीर में अत्यधिक पीडा होती है। पित्तविकार से दाह तृषा आदि होती है। कफ के विकार से स्थूल, घन, स्थिर व खुजली होती …
All 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
- 4
- Pages naming it
- 5
- Chapters
- Chapter 9
- Extraction tasks
- T05
- Record id
- condition_pittaroga