The text says the wise physician should always protect balanced digestive fire through food suited to the season and through enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods (trikāla).
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- समाग्निरक्षण
- Hindi
- समाग्नि के रक्षणोपाय
- English
- Protecting balanced digestive fire
Ingredients and preparation
Indicated for, as the text says
- Balanced agni (samagni)(समाग्निमेवं परिऱायेत्सदा)
त्रिकालयोग्यैरिह बस्तिभिस्सदा विरेचनै:सद्वमनैशचबुद्दिमान्॥ 14॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 2 · p. 16 · v. 14.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
Which states of the digestive fire does chapter 2 describe, how are they defined, and which procedures does the text pair with the disordered ones?
Balanced fire digests a proper meal properly; irregular fire (from vāta) sometimes digests it and sometimes not; sharp fire (from pitta) digests even an excessive meal; weak fire (from kapha) cannot digest even a small one. The text pairs enema therapy, purgation, and emesis with nasal therapy with the vāta, pitta and kapha types in that order.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The text does not explain trikāla further.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 2
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- method_samagni_rakshana_p88