A much enlarged swelling is treated with sweating, plasters and bandaging using suitable drugs; an especially firm one is burnt on its lower and upper parts with a rod heated in fire.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- वृद्धि स्वेदन-लेपन-बन्धन-दहन
- Hindi
- वृद्धि में स्वेदन, लेपन, बंधन और दहन
- English
- Sweating, plasters, bandaging and cautery for scrotal enlargement
Ingredients and preparation
Preparation as described
Sweating, plastering and bandaging are done with drugs suited to each; for a very firm swelling a metal rod is heated in fire.
अधिक बढी हुइर् वृद्दि को हमेशा स्वेदन अैषधियों द्वारा स्वेदन, लेपन अैषधियों से
How it is used
The heated rod is applied to burn the lower and upper parts of the firm swelling.
उसे अग्नि से तपायी गयी शलाका से नीचे के व उत्तर भाग को जला देवें।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Scrotal swelling (vriddhi)(अधिक बढी हुइर् वृद्दि)
उपाचरेदाशु विशोषतो दृढं। शलाकया वाप्यधरोत्तरं दहेत्॥ 81॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 13 · p. 238 · v. 81.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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- Content type
- Procedure
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- Chapter 13
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- T11
- Record id
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