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Symptom
Bleeding (raktasrava)
रक्तस्राव (खून बहना) · रक्तस्राव
If too much blood is let from a vein, vata disorders, wasting, breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anaemia, insanity and heat in the head are said to arise, and death may follow soon.
Condition
Bleeding gums (shitada)
सीतोद · शीताद
Sudden bleeding from the gums through aggravated kapha and blood, treated with bloodletting and medicated mouthfuls.
Condition
Bleeding disorder (raktapitta)
रक्तपित्त
Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…
Condition
Dental disorders (dantaroga)
दंतरोग (दांत के रोग) · दन्तरोग
Chapter 15 describes eight diseases of the teeth (dalana, krimidanta, dantaharsha, bhanjanaka, dantasharkara, kapalika, shyamadantaka, hanumoksha) and fifteen diseases of the tooth roots…
Formulation
Lac powder to stop heavy bleeding
लाख आदि का रक्तस्तंभक चूर्ण
For very heavy bleeding, a very dry powder of lac, bibhitaka, black gram and pigeon pea, mixed with plenty of ash of silk cloth, is put on the place to stop the blood.
Topic
Another way to stop bleeding
रक्त रोकने की दूसरी विधि · शोणितस्तम्भन अपर विधि
Alternatively, lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell (shukti), arimeda (glossed as foul-smelling khadira) with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees…
Formulation
Lodhra powder to stop bleeding
लोध्र आदि का रक्तस्तंभक चूर्ण
Lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell, arimeda with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees with their bark are powdered; the powder is dusted on the…
Topic
Nasya for bleeding from the nose
नाक से बहते रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग · घ्राणप्रवृत्त रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग
For bleeding from the nose the commentary gives as nasya ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, or ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of…
Topic
Stopping the bleeding
रक्त रोकने की विधि · शोणितस्तम्भन विधि
The bitten place is washed again and again with cold water and then sprinkled with milk or ghee for a long time. If bleeding is very heavy it is stopped with a very dry powder of lac,…
Topic
Treatment of bleeding from the nose
नाक से बहते रक्त की चिकित्सा · घ्राणप्रवृत्त रुधिर चिकित्सा
Bleeding from the nose is said to be stopped by rubbing old ghee on the head, or ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, or by pouring a…
Condition
Abnormal vaginal discharge and bleeding (pradara)
प्रदर
Asrigdara (pradara) is described as menstrual blood mixed with vata and pitta flowing from the vagina outside the menstrual period, caused by heat, miscarriage, excessive intercourse or…
Remedy
Cow's milk after excessive bleeding
अति रक्तस्राव में गाय का दूध
After stopping an excessive flow of blood, the patient is given cow's milk that has been boiled and cooled, at once and daily; complications are treated, and a little food prepared with…
Condition
Klishtavartma (bleeding eyelid)
क्लिष्टवर्त्म
An eyelid disease in which blood suddenly flows from an even lid of normal or coppery colour.
Topic
Measures for excessive bleeding
रक्त के अधिक बहने पर उपाय · रक्त की अति प्रवृत्ति होने पर उपाय
When blood flows excessively it is stopped at once, and the patient is given cow's milk boiled and cooled, then and every day. Any complications are identified and pacified, and the patient…
Topic
Section on pradara (abnormal uterine bleeding)
प्रदर अधिकार · अथ प्रदराधिकारः
Opens the short section on pradara (asrigdara), which gives its causes and signs and two remedies.
Topic
Signs and treatment of bleeding gums (shitada)
शीताद के लक्षण और चिकित्सा · शीताद लक्षण व चिकित्सा
Blood suddenly flowing from the gums through kapha and blood is called sitoda (shitada); it is treated with bloodletting and medicated mouthfuls. A footnote records सीतोद as a variant…
Condition
Splitting, bleeding gums (paridara)
परिस्रदर · परिदर
The gum flesh splits and falls away and the gums bleed, from kapha, pitta and blood.
Procedure
Correcting enema nozzle faults
नेत्रदोषज व्यापत्ति की चिकित्सा
An obliquely applied nozzle is straightened and applied again. When a nozzle with the ring too far, or one too long, has wounded the anus and caused bleeding, it is treated with the…
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Condition
Poisoning (visha)
विष (ज़हर) · विषरोग
The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.
Condition
Animal poisons (jangama visha)
जंगम विष · जङ्गमविष
Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…
Condition
Apatantraka (spasmodic disorder)
अपतंत्रक · अपतन्त्रक
Apatanaka is described as vata seizing the tendons of the hands, fingers, abdomen and heart region, with jerks and shaking, vomiting of phlegm, upturned gaze and inability to move the…
Condition
Consumption (rajayakshma)
राजयक्ष्मा (क्षय रोग) · राजयक्ष्मा
Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.
Condition
Disorders in pregnancy (garbhini roga)
गर्भिणी रोग · गर्भिणीरोग
Excessive riding in vehicles, much walking, slipping, sexual intercourse, falls and blows are said to dislodge the fetus from the uterus so that it falls, as fruit falls from a tree; this…