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Therapy
Caustic therapy (kshara karma)
क्षार कर्म · क्षारकर्म
Question
Why does the text rank cauterisation above caustic therapy?
पाठ में अग्निकर्म को क्षारकर्म से श्रेष्ठ क्यों कहा गया है?
Because diseases burnt with fire are destroyed from the root and do not recur, and diseases that kshara, medicine or knife cannot cure yield to it.
Procedure
Caustic alkali therapy (kshara karma)
क्षार कर्म · क्षारकर्म
Kshara karma is called the foremost of sharp and accessory instruments. The text gives its two kinds, how a weakened kshara is restored, the blackening that shows proper burning, washing…
Principle
Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
Topic
Section on caustic alkali (kshara)
क्षार अधिकार का आरंभ · अथ क्षाराधिकारः
Heading that opens the section on caustic alkali therapy (kshara karma), the first of the four procedures to be described.
Principle
Sixty therapeutic measures
साठ उपक्रम · षष्टि उपक्रम
The commentary lists the measures in order: drying, plastering, affusion, rubbing, heating (sudation), bandaging, scraping, bursting open, dissolving, nasal therapy, drinking, holding…