A complication of emesis or purgation in which an unsuitable medicine moves partly up and partly down without removing the doshas; the text lists its effects and treats it with emesis using warm water and vacha.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- विषमौषध
- Hindi
- विषम औषध का उपद्रव
- English
- Disorder from an unsuitable purifying medicine
What the text says
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Signs and symptoms1
An unsuitable medicine given for upward or downward cleansing that cannot remove all the doshas is said to cause many great disorders: fainting, vomiting, anorexia, thirst, impure belching, pain and nausea (readiness to vomit).
Treatment principle1
These are treated by making the patient vomit with hot water mixed with ugra (vacha).
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 22
- Extraction tasks
- T24
- Record id
- condition_vishama_aushadha