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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- नस्यनस्यकर्मशिरोविरेचननावनअवपीड
- Hindi
- नस्य कर्मनस्यनाक में दवा डालना
- English
- Nasal therapynasal therapynasyanasal drops
- Romanized
- nasya
What the text says
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Definition4
A footnote defines nasya as medicine taken in through the nose.
Footnotes define avapidana nasya as nasya given with a paste, decoction, juice or the like of dry drugs, and pradhamana as dry powder filled into a tube and blown into the nostril.
Pradhamana nasya is dry powder put into a tube and blown into the nostril.
Medicinal treatment through the nose is called nasya, which is well known; head-purging nasya can also be given with dry drugs.
Classification3
Nasya made with unctuous drugs is of two kinds, marsha and avamarsha (pratimarsha), and nasya made with dry drugs is of two kinds, avapidana and pradhamana; since the other kinds such as purgative and nourishing nasya are made with these, nasya is mainly fourfold.
Although nasya is of four kinds, it is basically of two: oleating (snehana) nasya and head-purging (shirovirechana) nasya.
A footnote says avapidana and pradhamana are kinds of purging (virechana) nasya: putting into the nose the juice pressed out of head-purging drugs is avapidana, and blowing the powder of the same drugs into the nose is called pradhamana.
Properties1
Use of the four kinds of nasya is said to give long life, freedom from wrinkles and grey hair, and a face radiant as the moon and beautiful as a lotus.
Indications1
Avamarsha nasya is to be used in head diseases arising from vata, pitta or both.
Quantity as written2
A footnote defines marsha nasya as 10, 8 or 6 drops of fat put into the nose for the best, medium and lowest dose.
Nasya is always given three times; when the drop of fat reaches the mouth it is called avamarsha nasya, and its dose is two drops.
Regimen1
Both kinds of nasya are given to a patient who has not eaten, on a day when the sky is not covered with clouds, at the time prescribed for the dosha, together with warming by the hand and similar measures; a footnote says the time for food is the time for nasya.
Cautions1
The signs of proper, deficient and excessive action given for smoking apply also to purgative preparations and to nasya, and the treatment given for the complications of excessive smoking is to be used for excessive nasya as well.
Contraindications1
Nasya is not to be given to one who has just bathed or wishes to bathe, who has just eaten, who has vomited, who eats very little, to pregnant women, patients with raktapitta, or those suffering from breathlessness or fresh pinasa.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 29 times on 24 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 123Chapter 8… दार्थ और अपामार्ग आदि रूक्ष पदार्थ, इस प्रकार दो प्रकार के औषधियों से नस्यकर्म1 किया जाता है। उस स्नेहनस्य का मर्श2, अवमर्श (प्रतिमर्श) नाम से दो भे …
- Book page 177Chapter 11… ॥101॥ भावार्थ : इसी प्रकार वैद्य को प्रमादरहित होकर प्रति तीन दिन में शिरोविरेचन कराना चाहिए।
- Book page 200Chapter 12… षेपक अपतानक से पीडित रोगी को स्नेहन-स्वेदन आदि क्रियाओं के प्रयोग कर (शिरोविरेचन) शिरशोधन वर्ग की औषधियों से शिरशोधन करना चाहिए। तदनंतर स्वच्छ घृत को …
- Book page 261Chapter 15… ी के तेल में मिलाकर अथवा इन औषधियों से मालकांगनी के तैल को सिद्ध करके नस्यकर्म करने से शिर में उत्पन्न समस्त क्रिमियों को दूर करता है। शिरोरोग का उप …
- Book page 263Chapter 15… तैल में भिगोये गए पिचु को शिर पर रखें। तो कर्ण रोग दूर होता है। इसमें नस्यकर्म व कान में तैल डालना भी हितकर है। कर्णरोगांतक घृत सपेचुकांकोलफलाद्र्रक …
- Book page 265Chapter 15… िकलने लगता है। इसे पूतिनासा (पूतिनस्य) रोग कहते हैं। इसमें गले को एवं शिरोविरेचन औषधियों से शिर को, शुद्धि करना चाहिए। 1. अnाईस प्रकार के कर्णरोग - कर …
- Book page 268Chapter 15… कटूष्णंसक्षरविपक्वसत्खलै: रूपाचरेत् घ्राणमहामयार्दितम्॥ 41॥ भावार्थ : शिरोविरेचन, शिरोतर्पण, धूम, गणडूष (कुल्ला) लेहन, इनसे व कटु, उष्ण, क्षर द्रव्यों …
- Book page 277Chapter 15… ्याणकारके / शिरोरोगाधिकार: 277 मोक्षण, कवलग्रहण, धूम्रपान, वमन, लेहन, शिरोविरेचन प्रति सारण (बुरखना) विधियों से रोहिणी की चिकित्सा करें। कणडशालूक लक्ष …
- Book page 282Chapter 15… सा करनी चाहिए। वात कफ के विकार से उत्पन्न मुख रोगों को वमन, धूम्रपान, शिरोविरेचन, कवलग्रहण व प्रतिसारण से जीतना चाहिए। मधूकादि धूपन वर्ति मधुकराजादननब …
- Book page 289Chapter 15… ाहिए। इसके1 तीन दिन के बाद दूध से उत्पन्न (दही से उत्पन्न नहीं) घी से शिरोविरेचन और तर्पण को शीघ्र प्रयोग करना चाहिए। पित्ताभिष्यंद में लेप रसक्रिया म …
- Book page 291Chapter 15… । प्रलेपयेत्सोष्णगवांबुपेषितै:॥ 148॥ भावार्थ : उस कफज अभिष्यंद को भी शिरोविरेचन, सिरा मोक्षण व अतिरूक्ष पदाथोँ से तापन के द्वारा उपचार करना चाहिए। एव …
- Book page 315Chapter 15… उत्पन्न नेत्रा रोेगों को भी रूक्ष व कटु औषधियों के प्रयोग से एवं ती़ण शिरोविरेचन से शीघ्र उपशम करना चाहिए। बलासग्रथित में क्षरांजन धान्याच्छलाकियवकृष् …
Questions and answers
What are the two basic kinds of nasya, and at which nine times is pratimarsha given?
Oleating (snehana) nasya and head-purging (shirovirechana) nasya. Pratimarsha, a kind of oleating nasya, is given on rising, on going out, after cleaning the teeth, after day sleep, after walking, after passing urine, after vomiting, after meals and in the evening.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Footnote 1 on PDF 630, attached to प्रधमन in the commentary on verse 75; not recorded in T26-05.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Therapy
- Categories
- Panchakarma
- Source pages with records
- 5
- Pages naming it
- 24
- Chapters
- Chapter 8Chapter 23
- Extraction tasks
- T05, T26
- Record id
- method_nasya