For a bad burn the text prescribes sprinkling lukewarm milk, smearing ghee and applying cooling pastes, opening the blisters, putting ghee mixed with cooling drugs on the burst blisters, covering them with the cool leaves of cooling trees, and giving cool food and drink.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- दुर्दग्ध की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of a bad burn (durdagdha)
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर) | सुखोष्णदुग्ध / मंदोष्ण दूध | Not stated |
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | आजय / घृत | Not stated |
How it is used
Sprinkling, smearing, opening of blisters and covering with leaves, with cool food and drink by mouth.
फफोलों को भी फोडना चाहिए। फूटे हुए फोडों पर शीतल अैषधियों के साथ
Indicated for, as the text says
- Burns (dagdha)(दुर्दग्ध)
दुर्दग्ध में भी मंदोष्ण दूध के सेचन से, घृत के लेपन से एवं शीतद्रव्यों के लेपन से उपचार करना चाहिए।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 481 · v. 29.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
What are the four kinds of accidental burns, and how is a bad burn treated?
Sprishta, samyag-dagdha, durdagdha and atidagdha; a bad burn is sprinkled with lukewarm milk, smeared with ghee and cooling pastes, and its blisters are opened and covered with cool leaves.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 21
- Extraction tasks
- T23
- Record id
- method_durdagdha_chikitsa_p553