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Condition
Haemorrhoids (arsha)
अर्श (बवासीर) · अर्श
Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…
Therapy
Enema therapy (basti)
बस्ति कर्म (एनिमा) · बस्तिकर्म
The quantity of enema fluid may be adjusted to age, strength, body, the state of the doshas and the heaviness or lightness of the drugs, but never beyond six kudava; medicated oil or ghee…
Therapy
Therapeutic emesis (vamana)
वमन कर्म · वमनकर्म
Emesis is judged proper when first the medicine, then kapha and then pitta are expelled and the doshas and the disease subside.
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).
Formulation
Powder of danti and other drugs for kushtha (unnamed)
दंती आदि चूर्ण (कुष्ठहर योग)
After venesection, a powder of danti, dravanti, trivrit, turmeric, costus, vacha, kutki, patha, bhallataka, bakuchi seed, neem seed kernel, sesame, nut grass, the three myrobalans, vidanga,…
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.
Topic
Those unfit for emesis
वमन के अयोग्य व्यक्ति · वमन के लिए अपात्र
Emesis must not be given to patients with gulma, timira, raktapitta, ardita, akshepaka, prameha, long-standing pandu, haemorrhoids or abdominal disease from injury, to those with a dry…
Topic
Those unfit for enema therapy
बस्तिकर्म के अयोग्य व्यक्ति · बस्तिकर्म के लिए अपात्र
Enemas must never be given to those suffering from indigestion, fear, grief, pandu, intoxication, fainting, loss of taste, giddiness, breathlessness, cough, kushtha, abdominal disease,…
Topic
Treatment of kushtha from the three doshas
त्रिदोषज कुष्ठ की चिकित्सा · त्रिदोष कुष्ठ चिकित्सा
In kushtha from the three doshas the patient drinks ghee or good oil cooked with drugs that break the force of kushtha, to purify the body. After judging curability and letting blood from a…
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.