Following the method for draining water in jalodara, the scrotum is pierced carefully with the vrihimukha instrument, a tube is inserted and the fluid let out; the verse first has the swelling bound firmly.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मूत्रजवृद्धि चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- मूत्रज अण्डवृद्धि की चिकित्सा
- English
- Draining urine-type scrotal enlargement
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Bind the swelling firmly (verse); pierce it with the vrihimukha instrument; insert a tube and let the fluid out.
ब्रीहिमुख नाम के शस्त्र से भेदन करके, नली लगाकर अणड से पानी को बाहर निकालें।
How it is used
Done as in the jalodara drainage procedure.
जलोदर में पानी निकालने की जो विधि बतलायी है, उसी
Indicated for, as the text says
- Scrotal swelling (vriddhi)(मूत्रज अणडवृद्दि)
समूत्रावृद्दिं दृढबंधबंधितां। विभिद्य सुव्रीहिमुखेन यत्नत:॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 13 · p. 239 · v. 85.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.
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_mutraja_vriddhi_p311