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Organ
Nose
नाक (नासिका) · नासा
Organ
Nose and throat
नाक और गला · नासा
Condition
Nasal disorders (nasaroga)
नासारोग (नाक के रोग) · नासारोग
Chapter 15 counts thirty-one nasal diseases, among them pinasa, putinasya, nasapaka, puyarakta, diptanasa, kshavathu, bhramshathu, nasal blockage, discharge and dryness, and nasal tumours,…
Condition
Burning nose (diptanasa)
नाक में जलन · दीप्तनासा
Intense burning in the nose with hot breath from aggravated pitta, treated by the course for raktapitta.
Condition
Foul-smelling nose (putinasya)
पूतिनासा · पूतिनस्य
Foul air coming from the nose and mouth when vata, joined with vitiated doshas, lodges in the throat and palate; treated by cleansing the throat and with head purgation.
Question
How many diseases does this part of chapter 15 count for the ear, nose, teeth, gums and throat?
पंद्रहवें परिच्छेद का यह भाग कान, नाक, दाँत, मसूड़ों और गले के कितने रोग गिनाता है?
Twenty-eight of the ear, thirty-one of the nose, eight of the teeth, fifteen of the tooth roots (gums) and seventeen of the throat; five tongue diseases and nine palate diseases are also…
Condition
Pus and blood from the nose (puyarakta)
नाक से पीप-रक्त बहना · पूयरक्त
Discharge of pus mixed with blood from the nose after worm wounds in the forehead region, vitiated doshas or injury; treated like a corrupted wound and a sinus tract.
Formulation
Ghee cooked with the five milky trees for nosebleed (unnamed)
पंचक्षीरी वृक्ष आदि से सिद्ध घी
Ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, rubbed on the head, is said to calm bleeding from the nose.
Topic
Nasya for bleeding from the nose
नाक से बहते रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग · घ्राणप्रवृत्त रक्त में नस्य प्रयोग
For bleeding from the nose the commentary gives as nasya ghee cooked with the juice of durva, hribera and guduchi and with milk, or ghee cooked with pomegranate juice and the juice of…
Remedy
Pouring jujube decoction, water or milk for nosebleed
सौवीर, पानी या दूध की धारा
A stream of jujube decoction (sauvira, as the commentary reads it), water or milk poured over the patient is also said to help bleeding from the nose.
Remedy
Rubbing old ghee on the head for nosebleed
सिर पर पुराना घी मलना
Rubbing old ghee, or ghee, on the head is said to calm bleeding from the nose.
Topic
Signs and treatment of burning nose
दीप्तनासा के लक्षण और चिकित्सा · दीप्तनासा लक्षण व चिकित्सा
From aggravated pitta the nose burns intensely and hot, smoke-like breath comes out (diptanasa); it is treated by the course for raktapitta and with pitta treatments.
Topic
Signs and treatment of pus and blood from the nose
पूयरक्त के लक्षण और चिकित्सा · पूयरक्त लक्षण व चिकित्सा
From wounds made by worms in the forehead region, from vitiated doshas, or from injury, pus mixed with blood flows from the nose (puyarakta); it is treated like a corrupted wound and a…
Topic
Treatment of bleeding from the nose
नाक से बहते रक्त की चिकित्सा · घ्राणप्रवृत्त रुधिर चिकित्सा
Bleeding from the nose is said to be stopped by rubbing old ghee on the head, or ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, or by pouring a…
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…
Topic
Section on diseases of the nose
नासारोग अधिकार · अथ नासारोगाधिकारः
Opens the section on nasal diseases (verses 28-43): signs and treatment of pinasa, putinasya, nasapaka, puyarakta, diptanasa, sneezing, bhramshathu, nasal blockage, discharge and dryness,…
Principle
Dose and measure (matra)
मात्रा
The verse says that a medicine given in a deficient or excessive measure is marked by faults beginning with failure.
Therapy
Nasal therapy (nasya)
नस्य कर्म · नस्य
A footnote defines nasya as medicine taken in through the nose.
Procedure
Pratimarsha nasya
प्रतिमर्श नस्य
A second kind of oleating nasya, pratimarsha (also called avamarsha, says a footnote), is used at nine times, listed in a footnote: on rising in the morning, on leaving the house, after…
Procedure
Smoking procedure: pipe, bore, inhaling and exhaling
धूमपान विधि (नली, छिद्र, ग्रहण और निर्गमन)
The smoking pipe is 48 angulas long for the prayogika smoke, 32 for the oleating smoke and 16 for the purgative and cough-relieving smokes. Its bore should let an urad grain pass (a…
Condition
Sneezing disorder (kshavathu)
छींक · क्षवथु
Repeated sneezing from aggravated vata in the vital spot of the nose, relieved by sharp pressed nasal drops; an external kind, from sniffing pungent powders, gazing at the sun or a blow to…
Principle
Fatal signs (arishta)
अरिष्ट (मरणसूचक लक्षण) · अरिष्टलक्षण
The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.
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
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.