Kapha-type abhishyanda is treated repeatedly with errhines (shirovirechana), venesection and heating (tapana) with very dry substances.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- कफजाभिष्यन्द चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- कफजाभिष्यंद की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of kapha-type abhishyanda
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Nasal errhines, venesection and dry heating.
शिरोविरेचन, सिरा मो़ाण व अतिरू़ा पदाथोँ से तापन
Indicated for, as the text says
- Conjunctivitis (abhishyanda)(कफज अभिष्यंद)
Organs mentionedEyesआंखें (नेत्र)
तमप्यभी़णं शिरसो विर‘चनै:।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 291 · v. 148.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.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
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- Pages naming it
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- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T14
- Record id
- method_kaphabhishyanda_chikitsa_p363