Weighing the strength of the doshas, curable rohini is treated as needed with bloodletting, medicated mouthfuls, medicated smoking, emesis, licks, head purgation and rubbing (pratisarana).
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- साध्य रोहिणी की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of curable rohini
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Procedures on the throat, mouth and head chosen by dosha.
मो़ाण, कवलग्रहण, धूम्रपान, वमन, लेहन, शिरोविरेचन प्रति सारण (बुरखना) विधियों से रोहिणी
Indicated for, as the text says
- Throat disorders (kantharoga)(साधय रोहिणी)
Therapies involvedBloodletting (raktamokshana)रक्तमोक्षणGargling and oil pulling (gandusha, kavala)गंडूष (कुल्ला)Medicated smoke inhalation (dhumapana)धूमपान (औषधि धूम)Therapeutic emesis (vamana)वमन कर्मNasal therapy (nasya)नस्य कर्म
Organs mentionedThroatगला (कंठ)
शिरोविरेकै: प्रतिसारणादिभि: जयेत्स्वदोषक्रमतो हि रोहिणीम्॥ 82॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 276 · v. 82.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.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T13
- Record id
- method_rohini_chikitsa_p348