Head disease in which vata, alone or with kapha, pitta and blood, causes pain especially at the temples on cold, windy, cloudy days; a footnote calls it fatal within three days.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शंखकशङ्खक
- Hindi
- शंखक शिरोरोग
- English
- Shankhaka (temple head disease)
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Definition1
Vata alone, or joined with kapha, pitta and blood and lodged in the head, is said to cause pain, especially at the temples, on days of severe cold, cold wind and cloud.
Prognosis1
A footnote adds severe burning and swelling at the temple and a choking of the throat as under the force of poison, and says the disease kills within three days.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 4 times on 3 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 259Chapter 15… त्पन्न होते हैं एवं तत्तद्रोषों के प्रकोप से, सूर्यावर्त, अर्धावभेदक, शंखक नामक 1. इन शिरोरोगों में वातादि दोषों के ∂क्षण प्रकट होते है। वातिक∂क …
- Book page 260Chapter 15×2… र के ठीक अर्धभाग में जो अत्यधिक दर्द होती है, उसे अर्धावभेदक कहते है। शंखक लक्षण स्वयं मरूद्वा कफपित्तशोणितै: समन्वितो वा तु शिरोगतोःधिक:॥ सशीत …
- Book page 261Chapter 15… ब्रवीमि संक्षेपविशोषलक्षणै: ॥ 10 ॥ भावार्थ : दस प्रकार के विषम शंखक आदि शिरोरोगों के लक्षण व चिकित्सा को निरूपण करके अब कर्णगत समस्त रोगो …
Questions and answers
Which ten kinds of head disease does chapter 15 describe?
Those from vata, pitta, kapha, blood and all doshas together, plus suryavarta, ardhavabhedaka, shankhaka, the worm-caused type and the depletion type.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat does the footnote on shankhaka add about its course?
It adds severe burning and swelling at the temple and a choking of the throat as under the force of poison, and says the disease kills within three days.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The marker for footnote 2 is not visible in the conversion; it is placed with shankhaka by page and content.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 3
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T13
- Record id
- condition_shankhaka