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Condition
Epilepsy (apasmara)
अपस्मार (मिर्गी) · अपस्मार
Apasmara is named for the loss of memory with deadly fear and fainting; it arises from the three doshas with vata predominant, shows falling, teeth gnashing, phlegm vomiting, upturned eyes…
Topic
Section on fainting, insanity and epilepsy
मूर्च्छा, उन्माद और अपस्मार अधिकार · अथ मूर्च्छोन्मादापस्माराधिकारः
Fainting, insanity and epilepsy arise from the doshas, which (aggravated by inner and outer causes) cover the faculties; they are treated with drugs suited to the strength of the doshas,…
Topic
A mistaken view of the origin of epilepsy
अपस्मार की उत्पत्ति के विषय में भ्रम · अपस्मार की उत्पत्ति में भ्रम
Apasmara, born of quickly coming and going doshas, comes suddenly by itself and soon passes; because it subsides without apparent cause, some ignorant people say it is caused by grahas…
Topic
Diagnosis of epilepsy
अपस्मार निदान
As one who falls into water fears that life is leaving and loses memory with fainting, so in apasmara there is deadly fear, fainting and loss of memory, hence the name. Though from all…
Topic
Treatment of epilepsy
अपस्मार की चिकित्सा · अपस्मार चिकित्सा
Apasmara is treated with the drug groups described for insanity; white trivrit, licorice and vajrakshara ground with cow urine are given as nasya, along with other very strong drugs used by…
Formulation
Trivrit, licorice and vajrakshara nasya for epilepsy
अपस्मार में निसोत, मुलेठी, वज्रखार का नस्य
White trivrit, licorice and vajrakshara are ground with cow urine and given as nasya in apasmara.
Food
Cow milk (go-ksheera)
गाय का दूध (गोक्षीर) · गोक्षीर
Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.
Condition
Fainting (murchha)
मूर्च्छा (बेहोशी) · मूर्च्छा
Murchha (fainting) is described as the doshas covering the channels of consciousness so that the patient sees darkness and falls; it is of six kinds (blood, poison, vata, pitta, kapha,…
Question
In which diseases does the text call lukewarm milk wholesome?
ग्रंथ गुनगुने दूध को किन रोगों में हितकर बताता है?
Long-standing diarrhoea, chronic fever, insanity, epilepsy, urinary stone, gulma, abdominal enlargement, liver disorder, vata, breathlessness and cough, spleen enlargement, ashthila,…
Formulation
Mahanaracha ghee
महानाराच घृत
Naracha ghee cooked again with a decoction of four purgative drugs and a paste of seven others; it acts quickly as a purgative and is called the best purgative for mahodara, ashthila,…
Topic
Mahanaracha ghee
महानाराच घृत
Naracha ghee is cooked again with a decoction of trivrit, danti, triphala and shankhini and a paste of aragvadha pulp, snuhi latex, chitraka, vidanga, chavya, turmeric and the three…
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Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.111), headed as Pūjyapāda's: Trikaṭukādi nasya…
Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.111), headed as Pūjyapāda's: Trikaṭukādi nasya for vāta and other disorders. Fifteen ingredients in equal parts, the three pungents, citraka,…
Topic
Special virtue of milk
दूध का विशेष गुण · क्षीर का विशिष्ट गुण
Lukewarm milk (cow's milk, says the verse) is said to be wholesome in long-standing diarrhoea, chronic fever, insanity, epilepsy, urinary stone, gulma, abdominal enlargement, liver…