In severe insanity and other mental diseases, sneezing is induced constantly, following the rules of the shastra, with powders of very sharp, pungent drugs.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- मानस रोगों में तीक्ष्ण चूर्ण से छींक लाना
- English
- Inducing sneezing with sharp powders in mental diseases
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Very sharp, pungent drugs are powdered.
अत्यन्त ती़ण, कटु (चरपरा) अैषधियों के चूर्ण से
How it is used
The powder is used to provoke sneezing, by the prescribed rules.
शास्त्रोक्र विधि के अनुसार छींक पैदा करना चाहिए।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Insanity (unmada)(अधिकोन्मदादि बहुमानसव्याधि)
- Epilepsy (apasmara)(अपस्मार (प्रकरण))
Therapies involvedNasal therapy (nasya)नस्य कर्म
Organs mentionedHeadसिर (शिर)
निरंतरमिहातितीव्रकटुभेषजैशचूर्णितैस्सदा ़ावथुमत्रा सूत्राविधिना समुत्पादयेत्॥ 118 ॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 17 · p. 374 · v. 118.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
- Supervision flag set because this is a strong head-purging nasal procedure with very sharp drugs.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
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- Chapters
- Chapter 17
- Extraction tasks
- T17
- Record id
- method_kshavathu_p446