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Condition
Foreign bodies (shalya)
शल्य (बाहरी वस्तु) · शल्यरोग
Procedure
Extraction of foreign bodies (shalya aharana)
शल्य निकालना · शल्याहरण
With the patient restrained, an extractable foreign body is drawn out with instruments such as the kankamukha. An unlocated foreign body is found by making the patient ride fast on an…
Topic
Removing foreign bodies
शल्य निकालने की विधि · शल्याहरण विधि
When a foreign body can be extracted, the patient is restrained and it is drawn out with instruments such as the kankamukha. If its place is unknown, the patient is made to ride quickly on…
Condition
Udara roga (abdominal enlargement)
उदर रोग · उदररोग
The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…
Therapy
Surgery (shastra karma)
शस्त्रकर्म (शल्य क्रिया) · शस्त्रकर्म
The introduction calls surgery (śalya) one of the principal limbs of Ayurveda and says Suśrutācārya set it out in a systematic, scientific way; many surgical treatises existed earlier, by…
Principle
Eight kinds of surgical act
आठ प्रकार के शस्त्रकर्म · अष्टविध शस्त्रकर्म
The verse compares surgery to the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings and lists its eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing for unseen arrows and other foreign…
Principle
Yantra (surgical instruments)
यंत्र · यन्त्र
Yantra are the devices used to grasp, pull out and inspect foreign bodies lodged in the body, to apply knife, caustic and fire in piles, fistula and similar diseases, to protect the…
Topic
Causes of udara
उदर रोग का निदान · उदररोग निदान
Terrible mahodaras arise from the doshas singly or together, liver and spleen disorders, water, poisoning, and obstruction or foreign bodies; the commentary lists eight kinds, from vatodara…
Topic
Instruments for the eight kinds of surgical action
आठ प्रकार के शस्त्रकर्मों के शस्त्र · अष्टविध शस्त्रकर्मों में आने वाले शस्त्र विभाग
The vriddhipatra is used for cutting and scraping, the utpalapatra for splitting, the kutharika for piercing bone, the vrihimukha for piercing flesh, the patrika for letting out fluid, and…
Procedure
Surgical instruments and their uses
शस्त्रकर्म और शस्त्रों का विभाग · शस्त्रकर्म
The physician versed in instruments and metals has instruments made by skilled smiths. The vriddhipatra serves for cutting and scraping, the utpalapatra for splitting, the kutharika for…
Procedure
The eight surgical acts
आठ प्रकार के शस्त्रकर्म · अष्टविध शस्त्रकर्म
To remove the many kinds of shalya in the body, instruments, knives, caustics and fire are used. Surgery has eight acts, excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction,…
Topic
The eight surgical acts and the instruments
आठ प्रकार के शस्त्रकर्म और यंत्र · अष्टविध शस्त्रकर्म व यन्त्रनिर्देश
Like the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings, surgery has eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction, draining and suturing, done with suitable…