Explore the knowledge
Search in any script or spelling. Combine filters: values inside one filter widen the results, different filters narrow them.
Showing 14 of 14 entries
Condition
Heart disorders (hridroga)
हृद्रोग (हृदय रोग) · हृद्रोग
Chapter 17 treats heart disease by dosha type: emesis with long pepper and mustard water and ghee or trikatu remedies for the vata type, emesis and purgation for the pitta and kapha types,…
Condition
Ear disorders (karnaroga)
कर्णरोग (कान के रोग) · कर्णरोग
Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…
Condition
Head disorders (shiroroga)
शिरोरोग (सिर के रोग) · शिरोरोग
Chapter 15 counts ten kinds of head disease: from vata, pitta, kapha, blood and all doshas together, suryavarta, ardhavabhedaka, shankhaka, and the worm-caused and depletion types;…
Condition
Kushtha (chronic skin diseases)
कुष्ठ (त्वचा रोग) · कुष्ठ
Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…
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.
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
Poisoning (visha)
विष (ज़हर) · विषरोग
The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.
Food
Sour fermented gruel (kanjika)
कांजी (काञ्जिक) · काञ्जिक
The verse lists sour sauvīra (the commentary: sour kāñjī) and liquor and its products among the causes of pitta aggravation.
Principle
Vata dosha
वात दोष · वात
Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…
Condition
Worm infestation (krimi)
कृमि रोग (पेट के कीड़े) · क्रिमिरोग
Worm disease is described with head and heart pain, vomiting, sneezing and fever; worms arise in kapha, faeces and blood and are treated with medicated ghee, purification, juices, powders,…
Topic
Properties of milk
दूध के गुण · दुग्धगुण
Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting,…
Needs review
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,…
Needs review
Quoted formula from the Nityanātha work, called told by Pūjyapāda: Caṇḍabhānu rasa for fevers.…
Quoted formula from the Nityanātha work, called told by Pūjyapāda: Caṇḍabhānu rasa for fevers. Mercury, with sulphur three times its weight, a measured amount of amṛta, tīkṣṇa, tāla, gagana…
Topic
Signs of worm disease
कृमिरोग के लक्षण · कृमिरोग लक्षण
Worm disease is said to cause severe pain in the head and heart, vomiting, sneezing and fever, and other worm-caused disorders such as diarrhoea, giddiness and heart disease arise again and…