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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- क्षारकर्मक्षारपातनक्षारसूत्र
- Hindi
- क्षार कर्मक्षार लगानाक्षार सूत्र
- English
- Caustic therapycaustic therapykshara karmaalkaline cautery
- Romanized
- kshara karmakshara sutra
Questions and answers
Which treatments does chapter 12 forbid for children's diseases?
Cautery, purgation, caustic alkali, surgery, emesis and the like; mild measures are used instead.
Detailed answer and sourcesAccording to the commentary, which piles are treated with medicine, which with alkali, which with cautery and which with the knife?
Recent, mild, internal piles with medicine; soft, spread, thick, raised ones with alkali; rough, firm, raised, hard ones with cautery; thin-based, hanging, moist ones with the knife.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat four kinds of therapeutic action does chapter 21 name?
Caustic (kshara), fire (agni), knife (shastra) and medicine (aushadha).
Detailed answer and sourcesQuick facts
- Content type
- Therapy
- Categories
- Surgery
- Source pages with records
- 0
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Record id
- method_kshara_karma