Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated with the cooling measures and pastes given before, after emesis and purgation, and with the treatments for fever and vatarakta; some forms are incurable.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- विसर्प
- Hindi
- विसर्पफैलने वाली सूजन
- English
- Spreading skin inflammationerysipelas-like spreading inflammation
- Romanized
- visarpa
Types described in the text
Visarpa from vata, from kapha and from all three doshas
वातज, कफज, त्रिदोषज विसर्प
What the text says
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Classification1
Visarpa also arises from vata, from kapha and from all three doshas; the swelling bears the signs of its own dosha and fever is present.
Causes1
Visarpa is said to arise quickly from aggravated pitta or from a wound; it is so named because the swelling spreads quickly over the body.
Treatment principle2
The cooling measures described before and pastes are to be used after suitable procedures such as emesis and purgation.
Therefore the treatment given in the section on fever and the medicines prescribed for vatarakta are to be used.
Prognosis1
Visarpa with blisters, many kinds of intense pain and severe burning, with the body very red, black or very yellow, arising from injury to vital points or from all three doshas, is to be given up as incurable.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 13 times on 4 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 132Chapter 9×9… ककाले॥ 32॥ भावार्थ : पित्त प्रकोप से, क्षत (जखम) हो जाने से, शीघ्र ही विसर्प नामक रोग की उत्पत्ति होती है। शरीर में सूजन शीघ्र ही फैलती है, इसलिए …
- Book page 251Chapter 14×2… ्वदेवातिशाेफम्। परूषविषमपाषणाधिकं गर्दभाख्यम्॥ तदुपमगतपाकं जालकालं विसर्प-। प्रति ममधिकपित्तोfतदाहजवराढच्यम्॥ 42॥ भावार्थ : इसी प्रकार हनु की स …
- Book page 264Chapter 15… को भरना चाहिए। एवं क्रिमिनाशक उपाय भी करना चाहिए। कर्णपाक में क्षत व विसर्प के समान इन्हीं औषधियों को कान में भरकर चिकित्सा करनी चाहिए। कृमिनाशक …
- Book page 387Chapter 18… :॥ 53॥ भावार्थ : मसूरिका पक जाने पर यदि व्रण हो जावें तो क्षत (जखम) व विसर्प रोग की चिकित्सा करें। यदि वह सदा स्रावसहित हो तो बार-बार उडद जै का ले …
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Skin and hair
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 4
- Chapters
- Chapter 9
- Extraction tasks
- T05
- Record id
- condition_visarpa