For the oily uttarabasti the fat is one pala (four tola) for men, half a pala (two tola) for women and a quarter pala (one tola) for girls not yet twelve; for the decoction uttarabasti the fluid is one prasrita for women, men and girls. When it is given into the uterus to purify it, the measures are doubled: one pala of fat and two prasrita of decoction. A footnote explains that prasrita, which elsewhere means two pala, here means the fluid that fills the patient's own palm from the roots of the fingers.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- उत्तरबस्ति द्रव प्रमाण
- Hindi
- उत्तरबस्ति के द्रव का प्रमाण
- English
- Measure of the uttarabasti fluid
Ingredients and preparation
Quantities are reported exactly as the source states them. They are historical measures, not dosage advice.
स्नेह का प्रमाण पुरुषों के लिए एक पल (चार तोले) स्त्रियों के लिए, आधा पल (दो तोले) कन्याओंSource wording as converted, Chapter 23 · p. 542 · v. 5.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 is the uttarabasti, and what fluid measures does the commentary give for it?
A footnote defines it as the basti given into the male organ, or into the urinary passage and uterus of women, named so because it is given after the niruha. It is oily or of decoction: the fat is one pala (four tola) for men, half a pala for women and a quarter pala for girls under twelve, and the decoction one prasrita for all; to cleanse the uterus both are doubled.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Footnote 1 on PDF 614 glosses प्रसृत; its OCR uses ∂ for ल (प∂ = पल, ∂ेकिन = लेकिन). The doubled fat measure (one pala) follows the commentary.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 23
- Extraction tasks
- T26
- Record id
- method_uttara_basti_matra_p614