Along the track shown by the probe, the bhagandara and its base are cut open with the knife and cauterised with fire, or a caustic alkali is applied; the wound is then cleansed and healed with wound drugs.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- भगन्दर शस्त्राग्निक्षार कर्म
- Hindi
- भगंदर में शस्त्र, अग्नि और क्षार कर्म
- English
- Knife, fire and alkali treatment of bhagandara
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Pass the iron probe into the fistula, cut open the fistula and its base with the knife, then burn with fire or apply caustic alkali.
भगंदर व्रण में लोह शलाका डालकर, भगंदर अैर उसके आधार कोे शस्त्रा से विदारण करके अग्नि से जलावें। अथवा ़ारपातन करें।
How it is used
Afterwards the wound is treated by the wound procedure with cleansing and healing drugs.
व्रणोपचार पद्दति से शोधन (शुद्द करने वाली) रोपण (भरने वाली) अैषधियों द्वारा चिकित्सा करें।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Fistula-in-ano (bhagandara)(भगंदर व्रण)
अथैषणीमार्गत एव साशयं। विदार्य शस्त्रेण दहेत्तथाग्निना॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 13 · p. 232 · v. 55.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
- Caution in the text: A footnote says the knife, fire and alkali procedures are to be applied after looking at the stage of the condition.
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 footnote's preceding sentence, that all of them are to be used in one stage, reads unclearly as printed.
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