Shlipada is to be treated with drugs that calm all the doshas and with procedures such as bandaging and abundant bloodletting.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- श्लीपद में बंधन और रक्तमोक्षण
- English
- Bandaging and bloodletting for shlipada
Ingredients and preparation
External applicationChapter 14 · p. 243 · v. 12
How it is used
Bandaging and letting out blood; no technique is described.
तमपि निखिलदोषाशोषभैषजयबंध। प्रचुररूधिरमो़ाद्यैस्सदोपाचरेच्चा॥12॥
Indicated for, as the text says
- Elephantiasis (shlipada)(शलीपद)
Organs mentionedBlood and circulationरक्त और रक्त संचार
समस्त दोषों के उपशामक अैषधियों से एवं बंधन, रक्रमो़ाण आदि विधियों के द्वारा उसकी चिकित्सा करना चाहिए।Source wording as converted, Chapter 14 · p. 243 · v. 12.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 14
- Extraction tasks
- T12
- Record id
- method_shlipada_raktamokshana_p315