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Unripe (ama): hard, slightly painful, of healthy skin colour, slightly warm and cold; it is calmed with dosha-pacifying pastes. Burning (vidagdha): severe pain, great heat, discolouration, tension like an inflated bag, thirst and aversion to food; it is ripened with poultices of strong ripening drugs. Ripe (pakva): pain calmed, soft, pale, itching, pus moving under pressure; it is pressed, opened, cleansed and bandaged.
Detailed answer
Swelling turns towards ripening when the doshas are very strong, the treatment is wrong or none is given. A deep kapha swelling may be ripe without showing all the signs; its cool touch and healthy skin colour show that it is ripe. Bandages are loose at the joints and eyes, medium at the face, limbs, ears, throat, genitals, back, flanks and chest, and tight at the buttocks, head, thighs, groins, pelvis, abdomen and armpits.
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- Chapters
- Chapter 23
- Extraction tasks
- T26
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- qa_T26_07