The text says that for the medium (healthy) body emesis is given in spring, enema therapy in the rainy season and purgation in autumn, as the way the noble ones preserve the health of the healthy; a footnote explains that these counter the kapha, vāta and pitta aggravated by those seasons.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मध्यमशरीररक्षण
- Hindi
- मध्यम शरीर रक्षणोपाय
- English
- Seasonal purification to preserve the medium body
Ingredients and preparation
Indicated for, as the text says
- Health (svasthya)(स्वस्थस्य संऱाणम्)
Effect on the doshas, as stated
Kapha: pacifiesVata: pacifiesPitta: pacifies
Duration as written
in spring, the rainy season and autumn respectively · वसंते, वर्षासु, शारदिकं
Therapies involvedTherapeutic emesis (vamana)वमन कर्मEnema therapy (basti)बस्ति कर्म (एनिमा)Therapeutic purgation (virechana)विरेचन (जुलाब)
वैरेचनं शारदिकं विधानम्। स्वस्थस्य संऱाणमिष्टमार्यै:॥ 45॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 3 · p. 35 · v. 45.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
- Dosha effects come from the footnote's statement that the procedures are given to overcome the seasonally aggravated kapha, vāta and pitta.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
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- 1
- Pages naming it
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- Chapters
- Chapter 3
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- method_madhyama_sharira_rakshana_p107