Eye-beneficial drugs are ground into a ball, wrapped in mango or similar leaves, coated with clay and burned in a fire of cow-dung cakes by the putapaka rule; the clay and leaves are removed, the ball is squeezed for its juice, and the juice is put into the eyes in the manner of tarpana.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पुटपाक
- Hindi
- पुटपाक
- English
- Putapaka (eye juice extracted by enclosed roasting)
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Mango (amra)आम (आम्र) | आम इत्यादि पत्तियाँ (लपेटने हेतु) | Not stated |
Preparation as described
The drug ball is wrapped in leaves, coated with clay and roasted in a cow-dung-cake fire; afterwards the juice is squeezed out.
आम इत्यादि पत्तियों को उस पर लपेट कर उस पर मिट्टी का लेप करें।
How it is used
The juice is put into the eyes following the method of tarpana.
उसकों तर्पण की विधि के अनुसार नेत्रों में डाले।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Eye disorders (netraroga)(नेत्र रोग)
नेत्र रोगों का हितकारी अैषधियों को पीसकर गोला बनावंे।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 288 · v. 133.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 editorial note explain tarpana and putapaka?
Tarpana is holding eye-beneficial juices or ghee in the eyes of the patient lying on his back; putapaka is juice squeezed from a leaf-wrapped, clay-coated ball of drugs roasted in a cow-dung fire and put into the eyes like tarpana.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T14
- Record id
- method_putapaka_p360