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Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

After the paste has been filled into the wound, leaves are placed over it and it is wrapped carefully with fine cloth, that is, bandaged; paying attention to the dosha, body, wound, season…

Shlipada is to be treated with drugs that calm all the doshas and with procedures such as bandaging and abundant bloodletting.

After the paste is filled in, leaves are laid over the wound and it is wrapped with fine cloth; the wound is kept bandaged throughout treatment, with attention to the dosha, body, wound,…

The ripe swelling, once opened and cleansed, is bandaged with three degrees of tightness according to the site: loose (shithila) at the joints and eyes; medium (sama) at the face, hands and…

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.

Bandaged in this way, the wound is cleansed, heals, becomes soft and free of pain; therefore bandaging is always proper, and this is the right course in the treatment of all wounds.

A much enlarged swelling is always treated with sweating, plasters and bandaging using suitable drugs; one that is especially firm is burnt on its lower and upper parts with a rod heated in…

On the second day the bandage is opened, the pus is pressed out, the wound is washed with astringent decoction water, medicines are applied again and it is bandaged as before.

The prolapsed yoni is smeared with ghee and put back, covered with a paste of sesame oil and cumin, and firmly bandaged.

Bandages are always tied loose at the joints and eyes; medium at the face, hands and feet, ears, throat, penis, scrotum, back, flanks and chest; and tight at the buttocks, head, thighs and…

Gulma is a round lump between the heart and the bladder, of five kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three, and blood in women); it is treated with purgation, dosha-pacifying drugs, enemas, the…

Mustard, radish seed, rock salt, drumstick and the three pungents, with other hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are applied to prameha boils by pressing, plastering and bandaging so…

Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.

Bhagandara is described as a very painful boil near the anus, within two finger-breadths of it, that bursts there. Five kinds are named after vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas and injury…

The text treats yoni diseases by dosha; an editorial note gives their causes (wrong diet and conduct, vitiated menstrual blood, semen defects, fate) and twenty kinds, five each from vata,…

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

A patient with a bhagandara boil is to be treated quickly with fasting, emesis, purgation, bloodletting, sweating, plasters and bandaging.

External vidradhi is treated according to the doshas in the way described for the unripe, ripening and ripe stages of swelling, and is cleansed and healed with bloodletting, pastes,…

Thus the many kinds of yoni diseases are conquered in order with drugs that destroy the respective doshas, by washing, fumigation, filling, gentle pastes, tarpana and bandaging.

All foods, snacks and drinks that suit vata patients are to be given to gulma patients, and the physician applies sudation and bandaging every day.

Mustard with radish seed, rock salt, drumstick (shigru) and the three pungents, together with all hot drugs that ripen and dissolve ama, are used for pressing, plastering and bandaging the…

When, after pressing, plastering and bandaging, the boils have ripened by themselves, the physician should incise them, cleanse the wound with cleansing drugs and then heal it with drugs…

On the second day the bandage is removed, the pus is pressed out, the wound is washed with astringent decoction water, medicines are applied again and the wound is bandaged as before.