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Basti marma is the bladder, the reservoir of urine inside the waist; a wound there causes immediate death.

Announces the marmas of the abdomen and chest; guda (the anus), basti (the bladder) and nabhi (the navel) each cause immediate death when wounded.

The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…

The enema bag is filled with one, two or four kudava (16, 32 or 64 tola) of the prepared fluid for children, youths and young adults. The nozzle is steadied with the left foot and gripped…

A footnote defines uttara basti as an injection with a syringe (basti) given into the penis or the vagina.

The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).

Nineteen marmas (eight neck vessels, guda, hridaya, basti, nabhi, adhipati, two shankha and four shringataka) kill at once; twenty-nine (eight of the chest, four talahridaya, four…

Uttarabasti is said to overcome the disorders from that vitiated blood, raktapradara, severe painful urination and urinary obstruction, bladder diseases from many doshas, diseases of the…