A thick poultice is bound on a body made stiff and contracted by vata; vata in the shoulders, collarbones, throat and chest is quickly pacified with nasal therapy and emesis.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- स्तब्धगात्र वात चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- स्तब्ध व आकुंचित शरीर की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of stiffness and contraction from vata
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Poultice externally; nasal therapy and emesis for vata in the upper body.
पुल्टिश बाँधना चाहिए। स्कंध (कंधा), जौु (हंसली) गल व व़ास्थान में वात हो तो नस्य अैर वमन
Indicated for, as the text says
- Stiffness (stambha)(स्तब्धदेह / स्तब्ध व आकुंचित शरीर)
- Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(स्कंध, जत्रु, गल व वक्ष में वात)
Therapies involvedPoultice (upanaha)उपनाह (पुल्टिस)Nasal therapy (nasya)नस्य कर्मTherapeutic emesis (vamana)वमन कर्म
स्कंधजौुगलव़ासि वातं। नस्यमाशुशमयेद्वमनं च॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 12 · p. 195 · v. 9.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 12
- Extraction tasks
- T10
- Record id
- method_stabdha_vata_chikitsa_p267