The physician versed in instruments and metals has instruments made by skilled smiths. The vriddhipatra serves for cutting and scraping, the utpalapatra for splitting, the kutharika for piercing bone, the vrihimukha for piercing flesh, the patrika for letting out fluid and the eshani for probing for foreign bodies.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शस्त्रकर्मशस्त्रविभाग
- Hindi
- शस्त्रकर्म और शस्त्रों का विभाग
- English
- Surgical instruments and their uses
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Each instrument for its own surgical action.
छेदन व लेखनक्रिया में वृद्दिपत्र नाम का शस्त्र, भेदनकर्म में उत्पलपत्र शस्त्र
शस्त्रकर्मरा वैद्य को उचित है कि शस्त्रों को बनाने में कुशल कारीगरों से शस्त्रकमोँचित शस्त्रों को निर्माण करावें।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 489 · v. 52-53.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
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 21
- Extraction tasks
- T23
- Record id
- method_shastrakarma_p561