The scrotum is opened with great care, avoiding the sevani raphe; the fat is removed quickly, the wound is cleansed in due order and bound with hot drugs.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मेदजवृद्धि चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- मेदज अण्डवृद्धि की चिकित्सा
- English
- Surgery for fat-type scrotal enlargement
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Avoid the sevani (the line from below the penis to the anus); open the scrotum with great care; remove the fat quickly; cleanse in order; bind with hot drugs.
सीवनी (लिंग के नीचे से गुदा तक गइर् हुइर् रेखा) को छोडकर
How it is used
Surgical opening of the scrotum followed by cleansing and warm bandaging.
पशचात् मेद को शीघ्र ही निकालकर, क्रम से शोधन (शुद्दि) करें तथा उष्ण अैषधियों द्वारा बाँध देवंे।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Scrotal swelling (vriddhi)(मेदोत्पौा वृद्दि)
व्यपोह्य मेद: सहसाविशोधनै। रुपाचरेत्सक्रमसोष्णबंधनै:॥ 84॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 13 · p. 238 · v. 84.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
- Caution in the text: The sevani raphe must be avoided when cutting.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
Questions and answers
Into how many kinds is scrotal enlargement (vriddhi) divided, and which kind is to be declared incurable?
Seven, from vata, pitta, kapha, blood, fat, urine and intestine; the intestinal kind (antravriddhi) is to be declared incurable before treatment.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 13
- Extraction tasks
- T11
- Record id
- method_medoja_vriddhi_p310