Enlargement of the liver on the right side, from blood vitiated by fever, intense burning, much water and burning-type foods.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- यकृदुदरयकृद्दाल्युदरयकृद्वृद्धि
- Hindi
- यकृदुदरजिगर बढ़नायकृत वृद्धि
- English
- Liver enlargementenlarged liverhepatomegaly
- Romanized
- yakridudara
What the text says
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Causes1
Fever, intense burning, drinking much water and eating burning-type (vidahi) foods aggravate vitiated blood, so that the liver enlarges on the right side; this is yakridudara.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 2 times on 2 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 150Chapter 10… धियों के रसों से इसमें अनेक बार भावना देकर कांजी मिलाकर पीवें, जिसमें यकृदुदर अष्टीलिका गुल्म, अग्निमांद्य खांसी, ऊधर्वश्वास, शूल, वमन, उदर रोग, कु …
- Book page 183Chapter 11… ोप होने से दक्षिण भाग में यकृत व वाम भाग में प्लीहा बढ जाता है। इनसे, यकृदुदर, प्लीहोदर उत्पन्न होता है या इसी को यकृता् प्लीहोदर कहते हैं। 1. स्त् …
Questions and answers
Why are piles called mularoga, the root disease?
Because they give rise to many other diseases, being their root cause.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Condition
- Categories
- Liver
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 2
- Chapters
- Chapter 11
- Extraction tasks
- T09
- Record id
- condition_yakridudara