With the patient restrained, an extractable foreign body is drawn out with instruments such as the kankamukha. An unlocated foreign body is found by making the patient ride fast on an elephant, horse, camel or chariot: it lies where the pain is greatest, and is removed there.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शल्याहरण
- Hindi
- शल्य निकालना
- English
- Extraction of foreign bodies (shalya aharana)
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Extraction with instruments such as the kankamukha once the object is located.
कंकमुखादि शस्त्रों से शल्य आदि का आहरण करना चाहिए।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Foreign bodies (shalya)(शल्य; अविदित शल्य)
उस मनुष्य को हाथी, घोडा, ऊंट, रथ आदि वाहनों पर बैठा कर शीघ्र सवारी कराना चाहिए। चलते समय जहाँ अत्यन्त पीडा हो, वहीं पर शल्य है एेसा सम¤ाना चाहिए।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 489 · v. 54.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 instrument does the text assign to each surgical action?
Vriddhipatra for cutting and scraping, utpalapatra for splitting, kutharika for piercing bone, vrihimukha for piercing flesh, patrika for letting out fluid and eshani for probing.
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
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 21
- Extraction tasks
- T23
- Record id
- method_shalya_aharana_p561