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Therapyचिकित्सा कर्म

Cauterisation (agnikarma)

अग्निकर्म (दागना) · अग्निकर्म

Reference entry

A canonical name in the library. The curated extraction has not reached a passage about it yet; name matches on the source pages are listed below.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
अग्निकर्मदहनकर्म
Hindi
अग्निकर्मदागनाअग्नि कर्म
English
Cauterisationcauterisationcauteryagnikarma
Romanized
agnikarma

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 34 times on 11 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

Which treatments does chapter 12 forbid for children's diseases?

Cautery, purgation, caustic alkali, surgery, emesis and the like; mild measures are used instead.

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According to the commentary, which piles are treated with medicine, which with alkali, which with cautery and which with the knife?

Recent, mild, internal piles with medicine; soft, spread, thick, raised ones with alkali; rough, firm, raised, hard ones with cautery; thin-based, hanging, moist ones with the knife.

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What four kinds of therapeutic action does chapter 21 name?

Caustic (kshara), fire (agni), knife (shastra) and medicine (aushadha).

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By which four procedures, according to the translation, are diseases treated, and why should none of them be relied on alone?

Poison, alkali, fire and instruments; some diseases are treated by one of them, some by two, some by three and some by all four.

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Quick facts

Content type
Therapy
Categories
Surgery
Source pages with records
0
Pages naming it
11
Record id
method_agnikarma