The patient's bed in the house described above: a good cot with new, wide and pleasing bedding, curtained all round with a canopy (mosquito net) above. Affectionate, steady, alert and calm friends and relatives watch over the patient, who lies with the head towards the east or the south.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शय्याविधानशयनविधि
- Hindi
- रोगी की शय्याशयन विधि
- English
- The patient's bed and lying position
Ingredients and preparation
तस्मिन्महावेशमनि नानुवंशं। विशीर्णविस्तीर्णमनोभिरामं॥ सुखट्वमाढ:च्यंशयनं विधेयम्। निरंतरातानवितानयुक्रम्॥ 22॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 7 · p. 94 · v. 22-23.What the text says
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Regimen2
In such a house the patient should be given a good cot (bedstead) with bedding that is new, wide and pleasing, with curtains all round and a canopy above.
The patient should be guarded by friends and relatives who are steady-minded, alert and calm, and should lie on the bed with the head towards the east or the south.
Questions and answers
How should the patient's house and bed be arranged?
The house should be in an auspicious place, protected, clean, guarded and stocked with medicines; the bed new, wide and curtained, with the patient lying head to the east or south.
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
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 7
- Extraction tasks
- T07
- Record id
- method_rogi_shayya_p166