The ripe swelling, once opened and cleansed, is bandaged with three degrees of tightness according to the site: loose (shithila) at the joints and eyes; medium (sama) at the face, hands and feet, ears, throat, penis, scrotum, back, flanks and chest; tight (gadha) at the buttocks, head, thighs and groins, pelvic region (jaghana), abdomen (kukshi) and armpits (kaksha). The physician skilled in medicinal work applies them keeping the science of drugs in mind.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- बंधन विधिशिथिल, सम, गाढ बंधन
- Hindi
- बंधन विधि (पट्टी बाँधना)
- English
- Bandaging by body site (loose, medium, tight)
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
A bandage over the treated swelling, its tightness chosen by site.
(कस के) बंधन करना चाहिए। भेषज कर्म में निपुण वैद्य)भैषजय विद्या को जानते हुए अर्थात् धयान
Indicated for, as the text says
- Swelling and oedema (shotha)(पक्व शोथ)
भावार्थ : शरीर के संधि स्थानों में, नेत्रों में सदा शिथिल बंधन ही बाँधना चाहिए। मुख, हाथ,Source wording as converted, Chapter 23 · p. 561 · v. 85.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
What are the three stages of an inflammatory swelling, and how is each treated?
Unripe (ama): hard, slightly painful, of healthy skin colour, slightly warm and cold; it is calmed with dosha-pacifying pastes. Burning (vidagdha): severe pain, great heat, discolouration, tension like an inflated bag, thirst and aversion to food; it is ripened with poultices of strong ripening drugs. Ripe (pakva): pain calmed, soft, pale, itching, pus moving under pressure; it is pressed, opened, cleansed and bandaged.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Part of the treatment of the opened swelling, so supervision is flagged. The commentary's list of tight sites is partly garbled (राडं्); the verse reads स्फिक्छिरसोरुवं़ाजघने कु़ाै सक़ो.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 23
- Extraction tasks
- T26
- Record id
- method_shotha_bandhana_p633