Recognising a touched burn, the text says to warm it at once with the same fire, which the commentary calls sudation, and to apply warm pastes of hot-natured medicines again and again.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- स्पृष्ट दग्ध की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of a touched (sprishta) burn
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Warming by fire and repeated warm pastes on the burn.
सोष्णैरुष्णगुणैषधैरिह मुहु: सम्यक्प्रदेह: शुभ:॥ 27॥
Indicated for, as the text says
- Burns (dagdha)(स्पृष्ट दग्ध)
अग्नि के द्वारा जो स्पृष्ट दग्ध कहा है, उसे जानकर शीघ्र ही उसी अग्नि से तपाना चाहिए अर्थात् स्वेदन करना चाहिए एवं उष्ण व उष्ण गुण युक्र अैषधियों से बार-बार लेप करना हितकर है।Source wording as converted, Chapter 21 · p. 481 · v. 27.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 four kinds of accidental burns, and how is a bad burn treated?
Sprishta, samyag-dagdha, durdagdha and atidagdha; a bad burn is sprinkled with lukewarm milk, smeared with ghee and cooling pastes, and its blisters are opened and covered with cool leaves.
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