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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- स्नेहनस्नेहपानस्नेहकर्म
- Hindi
- स्नेहनतेल घी पिलाना
- English
- Oleation therapyoleationsnehanainternal oleation
- Romanized
- snehana
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Definition3
Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.
Drunk ghee is understood to be digested when the body feels light, desire for food arises, the mind is clear, speech, urine, stool and flatus move properly, belching is clean and the senses are clear.
Signs of proper oleation are given as the definite passing of stools mixed with oil, aversion to drinking ghee and to food, and languor of the limbs.
Properties2
People who drink ghee in this way are said to get a sharp digestive fire, more strength, a golden glow, firm and fresh tissues, clean stomach and other organs, firm senses, a life of a hundred years and a well-formed body.
Ghee drinking that is properly applied is said always to be a rasayana, while its deficient (ayoga) or excessive (atiyoga) use makes the same ghee a cause of many disorders.
Indications1
The physician is told to use the quick-oleation preparations described above for kings, the elderly, women, the weak, and people with much heat (santapa), mild digestive fire or few doshas.
Treatment principle1
A footnote states the rule that oleation and sudation must be done before each of the purification therapies such as emesis and purgation; they are the preparatory procedures.
Quantity as written1
The proper amount of ghee is described as the amount that digests well by midday without causing mada, fatigue, languor, burning, fainting or loss of appetite; the commentary adds that this measure is held best for people with medium doshas.
Contraindications1
Ghee for oleation is not to be given in loss of appetite, new fever, heart disease, pregnancy, fainting, intoxication, giddiness and fatigue, emaciation, after drinking alcohol, in abdominal disease (udara), indigestion, after excessive purification by emesis and the like, or to one who has had an enema.
Other1
A footnote gives the variant reading वृषेषु (the virtuous, calm-natured) for नृपेषु (kings) in verse 14 but considers नृपेषु fitting in context.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 67 times on 40 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 96Chapter 7… ह:॥ 31॥ भावार्थ : द्रव्य, क्षेत्र, काल और भाव का अनुसरण करके यथायोग्य स्नेहन, स्वेदन, वमन विरेचन आदि कमोँ को तथा छेदन-भेदन आदि के योग्य रोगों में …
- Book page 112Chapter 8×5… , सबसे पहले सैंधानमक मिला हुआ, सुखोष्ण तैल से मालिश करा कर(इस विधि से स्नेहन1 कराकर) कुधान्य,वालु आदि से व उष्ण(कम्बल आदि) शयन में सुलाकर स्वेदन क …
- Book page 113Chapter 8×4… पदार्थ (घृत) पिलाना चाहिए (इस क्रम से शरीर अच्छी तरह स्निग्ध होता है) स्नेहन क्रिया में सर्वत्र यही विधि है। स्नेहपान के गुण विशोषनिशिताग्नयोःधिकब …
- Book page 114Chapter 8… थागमे पाययेिन्नविष्टमिह जानुदघनमृदुस्थिरोच्चासने॥33॥ भावार्थ : इस तरह स्नेहन स्वेदन करने के बाद सैंधा नमक, वच, पीपल इन तीनों के कल्क से मिश्रित त् …
- Book page 116Chapter 8… से गोघृत को सिद्ध करना चाहिए। वात को नाश करने वाले इस विरेचन घृत को, स्नेहन व स्वेदन से जिसका शरीर पहले ही संस्कृत किया गया हो, ऐसे मनुष्य को सुख …
- Book page 182Chapter 11… रोग होते हैं। प्रकुपित वात पित्त कफ व इनके सिन्नपात, यकृत् प्लीहा में स्नेहन आदि क्रिया करते समय, पानी पीना, विष के प्रयोग, आंतडी में शल्य के रुक …
- Book page 184Chapter 11… राया हो, बस्ति प्रयोग किया हो, घृत आदि स्नेह जिसने पी लिया हो अर्थात् स्नेहन क्रिया की हो, यदि वह उन हालतों में, ठणडा जल, अत्यधिक पीवें तो निश्चय …
- Book page 196Chapter 12… परिकर्म। प्रारभेत बहुवातविकारे ॥11॥ भावार्थ : अत्यधिक वातविकार हो तो स्नेहन, वमन, लेप, विरेक, अमयंग, धूप, कबल व बस्ति आदि पहले कहे हुए नस्य प्रयो …
- Book page 200Chapter 12… पाययेद्धृतमनंतरमच्छम्॥ 34॥ भावार्थ : आक्षेपक अपतानक से पीडित रोगी को स्नेहन-स्वेदन आदि क्रियाओं के प्रयोग कर (शिरोविरेचन) शिरशोधन वर्ग की औषधियों …
- Book page 214Chapter 12… त्काथितमार्गविधानात्॥ 111॥ भावार्थ : अर्शरोग से पीडित बलवान मनुष्य को स्नेहन, स्वेदन, वमन, विरेचन आदि से संस्कृत कर के, लघु, चिकना, उष्ण, अल्प अन् …
- Book page 246Chapter 14… न पत्रों से घर्षण (रगडना) रक्तमोक्षण (फस्त खोलना) प्रतिदिन औषधि लेपन, स्नेहन (सिद्ध घृत तैल लगाना) पत्तियों का पुल्टिश एवं अन्य उपशमन विधियों द्वा …
- Book page 287Chapter 15… टपाकतर्पणै: सुधूमनिस्वेदनपत्राबंधनै: ॥ 133॥ भावार्थ- इसके बाद रोगी को स्नेहन करके विरेचन कराना चाहिए। सिरा विमोक्ष व बस्तिकर्म 1. व्यपोह्य इति पाठ …
Questions and answers
Into which two kinds does the text divide treatment, and what does external treatment consist of?
Internal treatment, which is dharma, and external treatment, which is only an auxiliary cause; external treatment means oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and, where suitable, excision and incision, chosen according to substance, place, time and condition.
Detailed answer and sourcesHow does one know that the ghee drunk for oleation has been digested?
The body feels light, appetite returns, the mind is clear, speech, urine, stool and flatus move properly, belching is clean and the senses are clear.
Detailed answer and sourcesFor how long is ghee or sesame oil drunk for oleation, and why not longer?
For three, five or seven days with the amount raised step by step; after that it becomes habituated (satmya), so it is not drunk beyond seven days.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat are the signs of excessive oleation and how is it treated?
Burning at the anus, excessive stools, anorexia, kapha from the mouth, dysentery, burning of the limbs and fainting; it is treated with dry ginger in hot water and rice with mung soup, or a gruel with ajamoda, chitraka and rock salt.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Therapy
- Categories
- Purification prep
- Source pages with records
- 7
- Pages naming it
- 40
- Chapters
- Chapter 8Chapter 22
- Extraction tasks
- T05, T24
- Record id
- method_snehana