The patient first drinks ghee to soften the body, is then purged and given venesection; after three days, shirovirechana with ghee made from milk (not from curd) and tarpana are applied.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पैत्तिकाभिष्यन्द चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- पित्ताभिष्यंद की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment sequence for pitta-type abhishyanda
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | घृत; दुग्धोद्धव सर्पि (दूध से उत्पौा, दही से उत्पौा नहीं, घी) | Not stated |
How it is used
Internal oleation and purgation, venesection, then nasal errhine and eye tarpana.
दूध से उत्पौा (दही से उत्पौा नहीं) घी से शिरोविरेचन अैर तर्पण को शीघ्र प्रयोग करना
Indicated for, as the text says
- Conjunctivitis (abhishyanda)(पित्ताभिष्यंद)
Therapies involvedOleation therapy (snehana)स्नेहनTherapeutic purgation (virechana)विरेचन (जुलाब)Bloodletting (raktamokshana)रक्तमोक्षणNasal therapy (nasya)नस्य कर्मEye nourishing therapy (tarpana, putapaka)तर्पण (नेत्र तर्पण)
Organs mentionedEyesआंखें (नेत्र)
पित्ताभिष्यंद से पीडित रोगी को प्रथम घृत पिलाकर (घृत से स्नेहन कर) शरीर को मृदु करके विरेचन देना चाहिएSource wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 289 · v. 138.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
- A footnote (printed as 2, marked 1 in the text) records the view that shirovirechana and the rest are done three days after the onset of the disease. Footnote numbering on p.361 is offset.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T14
- Record id
- method_pittabhishyanda_chikitsa_p361