If the injured eye is ruptured and still hangs attached, the text says to separate it and treat it by the wound procedure described earlier, together with sudation, plasters, medicated smoking, nasya and nourishing therapy.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- भिन्ननेत्राभिघात चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- भिन्न नेत्राभिघात की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of an injured eye that is ruptured
Ingredients and preparation
Indicated for, as the text says
- Eye injury (netrabhighata)(भिौा होकर उसमें लगा हुआ)
Therapies involvedSurgery (shastra karma)शस्त्रकर्म (शल्य क्रिया)Sudation therapy (svedana)स्वेदन (सेंक)Paste application (lepa)लेप लगानाMedicated smoke inhalation (dhumapana)धूमपान (औषधि धूम)Nasal therapy (nasya)नस्य कर्म
Organs mentionedEyesआंखें (नेत्र)
यदि भिौा होकर उसमें लगा हुआ हो तो उसको अलग कर पूर्वोक्र व्रणविधान से उसे साधय करना चाहिए। साथ में स्वेदन, लेपन, धूमृपान, नस्य व संतर्पण आदि के प्रयोग से भी उपरोक्र रोग उपशांति को प्राप्त होता है।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 313 · v. 254.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
How does the text treat an injured eye?
If the eye has not left its place, ghee is smeared and a bandage bound; if it is ruptured and hanging, it is separated and treated by the wound procedure, with sudation, plasters, smoking, nasya and nourishing therapy.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- A footnote on PDF 385 gives the variant reading भिन्नां.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
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- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T15
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- method_netrabhighata_bhinna_p385