For pitta-type sprouts the tongue is first rubbed with rough leaves to draw blood, and then drugs of the cooling and heating groups (as the commentary reads them), soaked in ghee, are applied.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- पित्तज जिह्वाकंटक में घर्षण और रक्त निकालना
- English
- Scraping and bloodletting for pitta-type tongue sprouts
Ingredients and preparation
Mouth and garglesChapter 15 · p. 272 · v. 61
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | घृतप्लुत / घी | Not stated |
How it is used
Rubbing with rough leaves to let blood, then applying the drugs soaked in ghee.
पित्तज विकार से उत्पौा कंटकों में पहले खरदरे पत्रों से जिह्वा को घिसकर रक्र
Indicated for, as the text says
- Thorny sprouts on the tongue (jihvakantaka)(पित्तकृतोरूकंटकान्)
Therapies involvedBloodletting (raktamokshana)रक्तमोक्षण
Organs mentionedTongueजीभ (जिह्वा)
तदनंतर शीतल व उष्णगणोक्र अैषधियों को घी में भिगोकर उस पर लगाना चाहिए।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 272 · v. 61.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
- The drug groups are not named individually; the verse reads सशीतलैरूष्णगणैर्घृतप्लुतै:.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T13
- Record id
- method_jihvakantaka_vigharshana_p344