For kushtha in the blood, the measures of skin kushtha (emesis, purgation) and application are combined with bloodletting and decoctions; for kushtha in the flesh, the same purifications are done first and then many excellent proven medicines are given.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- रक्त व मांसगत कुष्ठ की चिकित्सा
- English
- Purification, bloodletting and decoctions for kushtha in the blood and flesh
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Purification, application, bloodletting and decoctions in sequence.
रक्राश्रित कुष्ठ में त्वचागत कुष्ठ की सर्वक्रिया (वमन विरेचन) लेपन, रक्र निकालना व कषाय सेवन करना चाहिए।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Kushtha (chronic skin diseases)(रक्राश्रित कुष्ठ / मांसगत कुष्ठ)
Therapies involvedBloodletting (raktamokshana)रक्तमोक्षणTherapeutic emesis (vamana)वमन कर्मTherapeutic purgation (virechana)विरेचन (जुलाब)Paste application (lepa)लेप लगाना
मांसस्थिते पूर्वकृतानि कृत्वा। पशचान्महाविविधभेषजयोगसिद्दम्॥ 83॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 11 · p. 174 · v. 83.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 the procedure includes bloodletting, emesis and purgation. The decoctions and medicines are not named here.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 11
- Extraction tasks
- T08
- Record id
- method_kushtha_raktamokshana_p246