A patient with a bhagandara boil is to be treated quickly with fasting, emesis, purgation, bloodletting, sweating, plasters and bandaging.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- भगन्दरपिडका उपचार
- Hindi
- भगंदर पिडका की चिकित्सा
- English
- Early treatment of the bhagandara boil
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
The measures named are fasting, emesis, purgation, bloodletting, sweating, plasters and bandaging; the text gives no further detail at this point.
उपवास, वमन, विरेचन, रक्रमो़ाण, संस्वेदन, लेपन आदि विधियों से शीघ्र चिकित्सा करें।
How it is used
Applied promptly to the patient with the boil.
उपाचरेदाशुविशोषशोणितप्रमो़ासंस्वेदनलेपबंधैन:॥ 50॥
Indicated for, as the text says
- Fistula-in-ano (bhagandara)(भगंदर पिडका (फुंसी))
भगंदरोद्यत्पिटिकाप्रपीडितं। महोपवासै: वमनैर्विरेचनै:॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 13 · p. 231 · v. 50.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
- Fasting (उपवास) is linked to method_langhana; bandaging is named in the verse, not in the commentary.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 13
- Extraction tasks
- T11
- Record id
- method_bhagandara_upachara_p303