Before any of the eight surgical actions the physician assembles suitable medicines, knives, instruments (yantra), an operating room, cold and hot water, fire and gentle, affectionate attendants, and once all is ready gives the patient suitable food.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- शस्त्रकर्म पूर्वकर्म
- Hindi
- शस्त्रकर्म की पूर्व तैयारी
- English
- Preparation before surgery
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Preparatory step before surgery; suitable food is given to the patient.
सर्व सामग्री पूर्णरूपेण एकत्रित होने पर, रोगी को योग्य भोजन कराना चाहिए।
सबसे पहले उसके योग्य अैषधि, शस्त्र, यंत्र गृह (operation room) ठणडा व गरम पानी, अग्नि आदि सामग्री व प्रेमस्नेह सहित मृदुस्वभावी परिचारकों को सब एकत्रित कर लेना चाहिएSource wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 490 · v. 56.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_shastrakarma_purvakarma_p562