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Condition
Fistula-in-ano (bhagandara)
भगंदर · भगन्दर
Bhagandara is described as a very painful boil near the anus, within two finger-breadths of it, that bursts there. Five kinds are named after vata, pitta, kapha, all three doshas and injury…
Topic
Section on fistula-in-ano (bhagandara)
भगंदर रोग अधिकार · अथ भगन्दररोगाधिकारः
Opens the section on bhagandara (fistula-in-ano); the running head still reads sharkaradhikara.
Principle
Wholesome diet and conduct (pathya)
पथ्य
Every grain should be used after carefully examining the person's constitution, region, season, disease and so on, choosing what suits them.
Food
Ghee (ghrita)
घी (घृत) · घृत
Ghee is described as strength-increasing (verse: of great potency), cold, aiding digestion (commentary for विपाकि), tasty, removing vata, pitta and kapha, a rasāyana, increasing lustre,…
Food
Milk (ksheera)
दूध (क्षीर) · क्षीर
The text says a newborn lives first on its mother's milk alone, then on mother's milk together with food, before taking food alone.
Food
Rice (shali)
शालि चावल (शालि) · शालि
Shāli rice is described as sweet and cooling and light in digestion, and therefore as removing pitta, increasing kapha and bringing on much urine.
Food
Water (jala)
जल (पानी) · जल
The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water…
Topic
Chapter thirteen begins
तेरहवें परिच्छेद का आरम्भ · अथ त्रयोदशः परिच्छेदः
Heading that opens the thirteenth chapter. Its first section, named after sharkara (urinary gravel), goes on to ashmari (urinary stone) and bhagandara (fistula-in-ano).
Procedure
External caustic alkali (pratisaraniya kshara)
प्रतिसारणीय क्षार (बाहर लगाने वाला क्षार) · प्रतिसारणीय क्षार
The external kind of kshara, applied to or dripped on outer parts of the body, is to be used in skin diseases, tumours, sinus tracts, nyaccha, fistula-in-ano, external worms and poisons,…
Question
How does the hitahita chapter argue that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect?
हिताहिताध्याय यह कैसे सिद्ध करता है कि कोई द्रव्य सर्वथा हितकर या सर्वथा अहितकर नहीं है?
It rejects the one-sided view that water, ghee, milk and rice are absolutely wholesome and fire, alkali and poison absolutely unwholesome: if the former were wholesome everywhere and…
Principle
Major diseases (mahamaya)
महारोग · महामय
The major diseases are named as prameha, kushtha, udara, vatavyadhi, mudhagarbha, haemorrhoids (arsha), urinary stone (ashmari) and fistula-in-ano (bhagandara).
Topic
The diseases called major
महारोगों की संज्ञा · महामय संज्ञा
The omniscient ones call prameha, kushtha, udara (abdominal disease), vatavyadhi, mudhagarbha (obstructed foetus), haemorrhoids, urinary stone and fistula-in-ano the major diseases.
Question
Which diseases does the Kalyanakarakam call the major diseases (mahamaya)?
कल्याणकारक में किन रोगों को महारोग (महामय) कहा गया है?
Prameha, kushtha, udara, vatavyadhi, mudhagarbha, haemorrhoids, urinary stone and fistula-in-ano.
Question
Why does the Hindi rendering of the hitahita chapter hold that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect?
हिताहिताध्याय का भावानुवाद क्यों मानता है कि कोई द्रव्य सर्वथा हितकर या सर्वथा अहितकर नहीं है?
Because by substance, place, time and state things have many-sided natures; if water, ghee, milk and food were wholesome in every way, they would have to be used even in new fever,…
Session
Treatment of minor diseases, part one
क्षुद्ररोगचिकित्सित
Heading that opens the thirteenth chapter. Its first section, named after sharkara (urinary gravel), goes on to ashmari (urinary stone) and bhagandara (fistula-in-ano).