Reducing and nourishing treatment in prameha

For a thin prameha patient, nourishing medicines that build up the body; for a stout patient, reducing (karshana) measures that make him lean.

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The thin patient is nourished with strengthening medicines; the stout patient is thinned with reducing measures.

उनमें कृश को पुष्टि देने वाला अैषधियों से पुष्ट व स्थूल को कर्षण (पतला करने वाले) प्रयोग से कृश करना चाहिए।

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तयो: कृशस्याधिकपुष्टिवर्धनै:। क्रियां प्रकुर्यादपरस्य:कर्षणै: ॥29॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 11 · p. 163 · v. 29.

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How are thin and stout prameha patients treated differently, and what is the general course of treatment?

The thin are built up with nourishing medicines and the stout are made lean with reducing (karshana) measures.

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