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Preparation type
Enema preparation
बस्ति द्रव्य · बस्तिद्रव्य
Procedure
Meal and preparation before an oil enema
अनुवासन से पूर्व भोजन विधि
Before an anuvasana enema the patient is fed, according to his usual diet, with milk, khala and similar foods a quarter less than his usual measure. A person whose body is impure is first…
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
Fever (jvara)
ज्वर (बुखार) · ज्वर
Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…
Therapy
Oleation therapy (snehana)
स्नेहन
Snehana is defined as making the body unctuous by having the person take a fatty substance such as ghee or oil.
Condition
Semen disorders (shukradosha)
शुक्रदोष (वीर्य दोष) · शुक्रदोष
Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…
Condition
Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)
वात रोग · वातव्याधि
Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…
Condition
Vatarakta (gout-like disorder)
वातरक्त
Vatarakta is said to arise from burning, pungent, hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding, which burn the blood and provoke vata; the corrupted blood collects in the feet…
Topic
Treatment of vata in the trunk (koshtha)
कोष्ठगत वात की चिकित्सा · कोष्ठगत वात चिकित्सा
Major vata diseases located in the trunk (koshtha) are to be treated by the physician who knows the rules for vata diseases with patra lavana and similar preparations, medicated ghee and…