For knife and caustic work on piles, an instrument shaped like a cow's teat is made of silver, gold or copper, four angula long and five angula round, with two openings: one at its mouth, with a slightly raised lip, for viewing the pile, and one in the side for applying caustic alkali and the like; the commentary says both are to be three angula thick.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- अर्शोयन्त्र
- Hindi
- अर्श यंत्र
- English
- Instrument for piles
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Inserted into the anus so that the pile can be seen through the front opening and treated through the side opening.
चार अंगुल लम्बा, पाँच अंगुल गोल, दो छिद्रों से युक्र एेसा एक यंत्र चाँदी, सोना या ताम्र से बनवाना
Indicated for, as the text says
- Haemorrhoids (arsha)(अर्श / अंकुर)
गोस्तनप्रतिमयंत्रामिहद्विच्छिद्रमंगुलिचतुष्कसमानम्Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 213 · v. 101-102.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.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The verse gives the side opening as three angula long (त्र्यंगुलायत); the commentary says both openings are to be three angula thick.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- method_arsha_yantra_p285