For shushkakshipaka the text advises irrigating (seka) the eye with slightly warm oil mixed with rock salt, or with slightly warm milk, and says all vata-born eye diseases should be treated carefully with such measures.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- शुष्काक्षिपाक में सेक
- English
- Eye irrigation with salted warm oil or warm milk
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल) | कदुष्ण तैल / अल्प उष्ण तेल | Not stated |
| Rock salt (saindhava)सेंधा नमक (सैंधव) | सिंधूत्थचूर्ण / सेंधानमक | Not stated |
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर) | कोष्णपय / थोडा गरम दूध | Not stated |
How it is used
Poured over the eye as an irrigation, either the salted warm oil or the warm milk.
थोडा गरम दूध से सेचन करना हितकर है।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Shushkakshipaka (dry suppuration of the eye)(शुष्काि़ापाक)
- Eye disorders (netraroga)(समस्त वातविकार से उत्पौा नेत्ररोग)
Therapies involvedPouring therapy (parisheka)परिषेक (धारा)
Organs mentionedEyesआंखें (नेत्र)
शुष्काि़ापाक रोग में सेंधानमक को अल्प उष्ण तेल में मिलाकर सेचन करना एवं थोडा गरम दूध से सेचन करना हितकर है।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 314 · v. 257.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.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Remedy
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T15
- Record id
- remedy_taila_p386_3