External treatment, which the text calls only an auxiliary cause of the calming of disease (dharma being the internal cause) and which is the subject of the rest of the book. Following substance, place, time and condition (dravya, kṣetra, kāla, bhāva), the suitable procedures such as oleation, sudation, emesis and purgation are done, and in diseases fit for them excision, incision and similar operations, by which the sick person is said to become well.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- बाह्यचिकित्सा
- Hindi
- बाह्य चिकित्सा
- English
- External treatment
Ingredients and preparation
द्रव्यं तथा ़ोत्रमिहापि कालं। भावं समाश्रित्य नरस्सुखी स्यात्॥ स्नेहादिभिर्वा सुविशोषयुक्रम्। छेद्यादिभिर्वा निगृहीतदेह:॥ 31॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 7 · p. 96 · v. 31.What the text says
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Treatment principle1
Following substance, place, time and condition, the suitable procedures such as oleation, sudation, emesis and purgation, and in diseases that call for them excision, incision and similar operations, are said to make the sick person well.
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.
Questions and answers
Into which two kinds does the text divide treatment, and what does external treatment consist of?
Internal treatment, which is dharma, and external treatment, which is only an auxiliary cause; external treatment means oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and, where suitable, excision and incision, chosen according to substance, place, time and condition.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Supervision flag set because the procedures named include emesis, purgation and surgical excision and incision.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 7
- Extraction tasks
- T07
- Record id
- method_bahya_chikitsa_p168