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Symptom
Heaviness (gaurava)
गौरव (भारीपन) · गौरव
Heaviness of the body is among the signs of aggravated kapha.
Condition
Kapha disorders
कफ रोग · श्लेष्मरोग
The people of marshy (ānūpa) land are described as very stout and kapha-predominant, and physicians there are told always to treat kapha and vāta.
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…
Condition
Common cold (pratishyaya)
प्रतिश्याय (जुकाम) · प्रतिश्याय
Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…
Condition
Consumption (rajayakshma)
राजयक्ष्मा (क्षय रोग) · राजयक्ष्मा
Rajayakshma, also called kshaya and shosha, is described as a severe wasting disease of all three doshas that dries up the tissues and is the seat from which many other diseases arise.
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…
Condition
Fever (jvara)
ज्वर (बुखार) · ज्वर
Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…
Principle
Kapha dosha
कफ दोष · कफ
The introduction lists the qualities of kapha as stable (sthira), unctuous (snigdha), smooth (ślakṣṇa), clay-like (mṛtsna), cold (śīta), heavy (guru) and slow (manda), and says kapha, like…
Therapy
Medicated smoke inhalation (dhumapana)
धूमपान (औषधि धूम) · धूमपान
Smoke (dhuma) is said to be of five kinds: oleating (snehana), prayogika, emetic (vamana), purgative (virechana) and cough-relieving (kasaghna); a footnote gives नस्यैः as a variant reading…
Condition
Plant and mineral poisons (sthavara visha)
स्थावर विष · स्थावरविष
Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.
Condition
Pox disease (masurika)
मसूरिका (चेचक) · मसूरिका
Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…
Condition
Snakebite (sarpa visha)
सर्प विष (सांप का जहर) · सर्पविष
Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…
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.
Topic
Signs of aggravated kapha
कुपित कफ के लक्षण · प्रकुपित कफ का लक्षण
Stiffness, coldness, swelling, heaviness, hardness, intense cold, severe itching, unctuousness and wetness, salivation, distaste for food, heaviness of the head, excessive sleep, weak…
Topic
Benefits of emesis
वमन के गुण · वमन गुण
Properly performed emesis is said to remove delirious talk, heaviness of the body, hoarseness, excessive sleep, bad taste in the mouth, weak digestion, foul breath, burning, heart disease,…
Topic
Benefits of smoking
धूमसेवन के गुण · धूमसेवन का गुण
Smoke is said to clear the senses, gladden the mind and firm the teeth and hair, and to remove breathlessness, cough, sneezing, vomiting, hoarseness, sleep disorder, kacha, delirium and…
Topic
Complication of oil given to an unprepared body
असंस्कृत शरीर वाले को दिए स्नेह का उपद्रव · असंस्कृतशरीरी को प्रयुक्त स्नेह का उपद्रव
A weak, small or very mild oil enema given to one whose body has not been prepared by sweating, purgation and the like does not come back; the oil stays in the belly and causes heaviness,…
Topic
Complication of oil given to one who ate little
अल्पाहारी को दिए स्नेह का उपद्रव · अल्पाहारी को प्रयुक्त स्नेह का उपद्रव
An oil enema in small measure given to a patient who ate very little, even if beneficial and properly given, does not come out at once and causes languor, distaste in the mouth, heaviness…
Topic
Complications when the oil is overpowered by food
अन्नाभिभूत स्नेह के उपद्रव
Even a proper oil enema given to a patient who has eaten a full meal is overpowered by the food and does not come out, causing heart pain, breathlessness, cough, hoarseness, loss of taste,…
Topic
Complications when the oil mixes with stool in an uncleansed bowel
अशुद्ध कोष्ठ में मल मिश्रित स्नेह के उपद्रव · अशुद्धकोष्ठ के मल मिश्रित स्नेह के उपद्रव
In a person whose bowel has not been cleansed by purgation and niruha, even a proper oil enema mixes with stool and does not come out, causing heaviness and colic in the colon, fatigue of…
Topic
Complications when the oil rises upward
ऊर्ध्वगत स्नेह के उपद्रव
If the nozzle is pressed with too much force, the oil rises too high, causing breathlessness, cough, loss of taste, much spitting, heaviness of the head and excessive sleep; the mouth…
Topic
Features of consumption by dosha
दोषभेद से राजयक्ष्मा के लक्षण · वात आदि के भेद से राजयक्ष्मा का लक्षण
Eleven features are listed: from vata, loss or change of voice, sunken flanks and contraction of the shoulders; from pitta, fever, burning, bleeding and diarrhoea; from kapha, loss of…
Condition
Hridayopasarana (doshas moving to the heart)
हृदयोपसरण
A complication of emesis, purgation and enemas in which the doshas move toward the heart and cause heart pain, fainting and related signs.
Condition
Pothaki (mustard-seed pimples of the eyelid)
पोथकी
An eyelid disease with many red, mustard-seed-like pimples.