A poultice cooked with oil, buttermilk, curd, milk, ghee, sour substances, rice, the sweet group of drugs, alkalis such as yavakshara, cow urine and salts such as rock salt is bound on, and vata-reducing leaves are tied over it; it is said to remove vata.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- वातघ्न उपनाहपत्रबन्धन
- Hindi
- वातघ्न उपनाह (पुल्टिस)
- English
- Vata-reducing poultice
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल) | तैल | Not stated |
| Buttermilk (takra)छाछ (तक्र) | तक्र / छाछ | Not stated |
| Curd (dadhi)दही (दधि) | दधि / दही | Not stated |
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर) | दुग्ध | Not stated |
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | घृत | Not stated |
| Rice (shali)शालि चावल (शालि) | तणडुल / चावल | Not stated |
| Barley alkali (yavakshara)जवाखार (यवक्षार) | ़ार / यव़ारदि ़ार | Not stated |
| Cow urine (gomutra)गोमूत्र (गाय का मूत्र) | मूत्रा / गोमूत्र | Not stated |
| Rock salt (saindhava)सेंधा नमक (सैंधव) | लवण / सेंधवादि लवण | Not stated |
Preparation as described
All the substances, with sour things and the sweet drug group, are cooked into a poultice mass.
़ारमूत्रालवणैस्सह सिद्दं। पत्राबंधनमिदं पवनधनम्
How it is used
Bound on the affected part, with vata-reducing leaves bound over it.
गोमूत्र व सेंधवादि लवणों के द्वारा सिद्द पुलटिस को बाँधकर उसके ऊपर वातघन पत्तों का प्रतिबंधन
Indicated for, as the text says
- Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(पवनधन / वातहर)
Effect on the doshas, as stated
Vata: pacifies
Therapies involvedPoultice (upanaha)उपनाह (पुल्टिस)
तैलतक्रदधिदुग्धघृताम्लै:। तणडुलैर्मधुरभेषजवर्गै:॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 195 · v. 7.All references
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Formulation
- Source pages with records
- 1
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- Chapters
- Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- formulation_vataghna_upanaha_p267