A suitable tube with two openings is placed in the puncture and the fluid is let out little by little; as it drains the waist cloth is tightened more and more, and the wise physician lets out all the vitiated fluid from the left side over fifteen days.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- उदर से जल निकालने की विधि
- English
- Draining fluid from the abdomen in jalodara
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Fluid is drained a little at a time through the tube, with the bandage tightened progressively.
उस छेद में एक योग्य दो मुख वाली नली को रखकर थोडे-थोडे जल उससे
Indicated for, as the text says
- Ascites (jalodara)(दोषजल / सदोष जल)
Duration as written
over fifteen days · प़ात् / पंद्रह दिन तक
विधाय प़ादथवापि वामत:। समस्तदोषोदकमुत्सृजेद्बुध: ॥177॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 11 · p. 191 · v. 176-177.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: The fluid must never be let out all at once, because severe thirst, intense fainting, fever and burning may arise.
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
Why is the fluid in jalodara drained only a little at a time, and how long does the draining take?
Because draining it all at once may bring on severe thirst, intense fainting, fever and burning; the fluid is let out from the left side over fifteen days, with the waist cloth tightened as it drains.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Supervision flag: surgical drainage.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 11
- Extraction tasks
- T09
- Record id
- method_jalodara_jala_nirharana_p263