Kushtha patients are given foods cooked with these saktu preparations, such as bhakshya, sweet cakes (apupa), stuffed pastries, parched grain, poli, puri and shashkuli.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- सत्तू से बने भक्ष्य
- English
- Foods cooked with the medicated saktu
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Given as food.
कुष्ठ रोगी के लिए उपर्युक्र प्रकार के सत्थुवों के साथ पकाये हुए भ़य, पुआ, पोळी
Indicated for, as the text says
- Kushtha (chronic skin diseases)(अखिलकुष्ठमहामयात्र्त: / कुष्ठ रोगी)
धानानुदं भानपिशष्कु लीका-स्तं भ़ायेदखिलकुष्ठमहामयात्र्त:॥ 108॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 11 · p. 179 · v. 108.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.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- No heading of its own. The saktu contains bhallataka and arka, hence the supervision flag.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Remedy
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 11
- Extraction tasks
- T09
- Record id
- remedy_saktu_p251_1