Kapha-removing niruha enema

A comfortably warm enema of the decoction and paste of aragvadha, kutaja, the three pungents and vacha, mixed with alkaline water, cow urine and the salts beginning with rock salt, said to destroy severely aggravated kapha.

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit: कफघ्न निरूह बस्ति
Hindi: कफघ्न निरूह बस्ति
English: Kapha-removing niruha enema

Ingredients and preparation

Enema liquidRectalChapter 22 · p. 536 · v. 154

Ingredients

Ingredient	As written in the text	Quantity as written
Aragvadha (golden shower)अमलतास (आरग्वध)	राजवृ़ा / अमलतास	Not stated
Kutaja (kurchi)कुड़ा (कुटज)	कुटज / कूडा	Not stated
Trikatu (three pungents)त्रिकटु (सोंठ, मिर्च, पीपल)	त्रिाकटु / सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल	Not stated
Vacha (sweet flag)बच (वचा)	उग्रा / बच	Not stated
Alkali preparations (kshara)क्षार (खार)	़ारतोय / ़ारजल	Not stated
Cow urine (gomutra)गोमूत्र (गाय का मूत्र)	मूत्रा / गोमूत्रा	Not stated
Rock salt (saindhava)सेंधा नमक (सैंधव)	सैंधवादिलवण / सैंधवादि लवणगण	Not stated

Preparation as described

Alkaline water, cow urine and salts are mixed into the decoction and paste of the drugs, and the enema is given warm.

गोमूत्रा व सैंधवादि लवणगण को मिलाकर कुछ गरम-गरम बस्ति देवें

How it is used

Given comfortably warm as a niruha.

कुछ गरम-गरम बस्ति देवें

Indicated for, as the text says

Kapha disorders(प्रकुपित भयंकर कफ)

Effect on the doshas, as stated

Kapha: pacifies

Therapies involvedDecoction enema (niruha basti)निरूह बस्ति

भावार्थ : अमलतास, कूडा, सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल, बच, इनके क्वाथ व कल्क में ़ारजल,Source wording as converted, Chapter 22 · p. 536 · v. 154.

Safety

Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.

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