Sites, uses and aftercare of cauterisation

Cautery is applied to the brows and temples in head disorders and adhimantha, and to the eyelid hair follicles in eyelid disorders with the eye covered by a wet cloth; it is also named for severe vata in skin, flesh and vessels, hard wounds with raised flesh, granthi, arbuda, charmakila, tilakalaka, apachi, sinus tracts and bleeding from cut vessels and joints. After proper burning, ghee is applied to the burn and cool food, conduct and medicines are given.

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit: दहनक्रिया
Hindi: अग्निकर्म के स्थान, रोग और पश्चात् कर्म
English: Sites, uses and aftercare of cauterisation

Ingredients and preparation

External applicationChapter 21 · p. 479 · v. 21-23

Ingredients

Ingredient	As written in the text	Quantity as written
Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत)	घी (दग्धव्रण में लगाने को)	Not stated

How it is used

Burning at the named sites; in eyelid disorders the eye is first covered with a wet cloth.

वत्र्मरोग में गीले कपडे से आँख को ढककर वत्र्मस्थ रोमकूपों से लेकर दहन करें।

Indicated for, as the text says

Head disorders (shiroroga)(शिरोरोग)
Conjunctivitis (abhishyanda)(अधिमंथ)
Eyelid disorders (vartmaroga)(वत्र्मरोग)
Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(त्वचा, मांस, सिरा आदि स्थानों में वात प्रकुपित होने पर)
Wounds and ulcers (vrana)(भयंकर, कठोर, व जिसमें मांस बढ गया हो एेसे व्रण)
Nodules (granthi)(ग्रंथि)
Tumours (arbuda)(अर्बुद)
Pile-like growth on the skin (charmakila)(चर्मकील)
Tilakālaka (a facial skin condition)(तिल कालक)
Cervical lymph node swellings (gandamala)(अपची)
Sinus tract (nadivrana)(नाडी व्रण)
Bleeding (raktasrava)(छेदित सिरा, संधि में, रक्र प्रवृत्ति में)

Therapies involvedCauterisation (agnikarma)अग्निकर्म (दागना)

सम्यग्दग्ध के ल़ाण को देखकर, विद्वान् चतुर वैद्य, दग्धव्रण में घी लगावें अैर रोगी को शीत आहार, शीतविहार व शीत अैषधि का प्रयोग करें।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 479 · v. 21-23.

Safety

Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Contraindication in the text: Not to be done in people of pitta constitution, those with bhinna-koshtha, the emaciated, those with blood collected inside, the exhausted, those with a foreign body, those afflicted by many wounds and those unfit for sudation.

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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