The patient, fit for bloodletting, is fed cool food and seated; an unbroken site is roughened with powdered earth and cow dung or a dry paste and washed with cold water. The leeches are made to vomit with turmeric and vacha paste on their mouths, washed, refreshed in water with green-gram paste, held in a wet fine cloth and applied; if they do not bite, butter is applied or a small cut is made.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- जलौकावचारण
- Hindi
- जोंक लगाने की विधि
- English
- Application of leeches
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and clay (mrittika)मिट्टी (मृत्तिका) | मिट्टी (चूर्ण) | Not stated |
| Cow dung (gomaya)गोबर (गोमय) | गोबर (चूर्ण) | Not stated |
| Haridra (turmeric)हल्दी (हरिद्रा) | सद्रजनी / हल्दी | Not stated |
| Mustard seed (sarshapa)सरसों (सर्षप) | सुसर्षप (श्लोक में) | Not stated |
| Vacha (sweet flag)बच (वचा) | वचा / बच | Not stated |
| Green gram (mudga)मूंग (मुद्ग) | मुeकृतकल्क / मूंग की पिnी | Not stated |
| Butter (navanita)मक्खन (नवनीत) | नवनीत / मक्खन | Not stated |
How it is used
Leeches are held in a wet fine cloth and made to grip the diseased site.
उन्हें गीले बारीक कपडे के टुकडे से पकडकर, रोगयुक्र स्थान को पकडवा देवें।
जहाँ से रक्र निकालना हो उस जगह मंे यदि व्रण न हो तो, मिट्टी व गोबर के चूर्ण, अथवा किसी रू़ा पिnी से, उस स्थान को रगडकर रू़ाण (खरदरा) करके ठंडे पानी से बार-बार धोवें।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 487 · v. 45-46, 48.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: If the bite becomes very painful and itchy while the leech sucks, it is drawing pure blood, and it should at once be detached by putting rock salt on its mouth.
- Caution in the text: If, judging the kind of blood, the flow is found to be very forceful, it should be stopped with medicines.
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
How can one tell that a leech has begun to draw pure blood, and what is done then?
The bite becomes very painful and itchy; rock salt is put on the leech's mouth to detach it at once.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
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- Chapters
- Chapter 21
- Extraction tasks
- T23
- Record id
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