The text says the digestive fire troubled by vāta, pitta and kapha is to be corrected, in that order, with enema therapy, purgation, and suitable emesis together with nasal therapy.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- विषमाग्न्यादि चिकित्सा
- Hindi
- विषमाग्नि आदि की चिकित्सा
- English
- Treatment of irregular, sharp and weak digestive fire
Ingredients and preparation
Indicated for, as the text says
- Irregular agni (vishamagni)(मरुत्प्रपीडित उदराग्नि (वात से पीडित उदराग्नि))
- Sharp agni (tikshnagni)(पित्तप्रपीडित उदराग्नि)
- Weak agni (mandagni)(कफप्रपीडित उदराग्नि)
क्रमान्मरुत्पित्तकफप्रपीडिता-निहोदराग्नीनपि साधयेद्धिषक्॥ 13॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 2 · p. 15 · v. 13.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
Which states of the digestive fire does chapter 2 describe, how are they defined, and which procedures does the text pair with the disordered ones?
Balanced fire digests a proper meal properly; irregular fire (from vāta) sometimes digests it and sometimes not; sharp fire (from pitta) digests even an excessive meal; weak fire (from kapha) cannot digest even a small one. The text pairs enema therapy, purgation, and emesis with nasal therapy with the vāta, pitta and kapha types in that order.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
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Extraction notes
- The commentary on PDF p.88 restates it: 'वात, पित्त, व कफ के द्वारा क्रम से पीडित उदराग्नि को वैद्य बस्तिकार्य, विरेचन, योग्य वमन व नस्यों से यथाक्रम चिकित्सा करें।' No drugs, doses or durations are given.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 2
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- method_vishamagnyadi_chikitsa_p87