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Therapy
Nourishing therapy (brimhana)
बृंहण चिकित्सा · बृंहण
Procedure
Purgation, uttara basti and nourishing therapy in urinary diseases
मूत्ररोग में विरेचन, उत्तरबस्ति और बृंहण
For the urinary diseases described, the text advises purgation by rule and the uttara basti described earlier, and nourishing therapy if blood flows after excessive intercourse.
Therapy
Eye nourishing therapy (tarpana, putapaka)
तर्पण (नेत्र तर्पण) · तर्पण
Topic
Collyrium and eye-nourishing therapy in shushkakshipaka
शुष्काक्षिपाक में अंजन और तर्पण · शुष्काक्षिपाक में अंजन-तर्पण
Dry ginger powder ground well with breast milk, ghee, oil, rock salt and citron juice makes an excellent collyrium for shushkakshipaka; nourishing the eyes (tarpana) with ghee and oil is…
Condition
Urinary obstruction (mutraghata)
मूत्राघात (पेशाब रुकना) · मूत्राघात
In verses 39 to 52 the text describes urinary obstruction (mutraghata, glossed मूत्रावरोध) in the forms vatakundalika, mutrashthilika, vatabasti, mutratita, mutrajathara, mutrotsanga,…
Condition
Complications of purification therapies
भैषज्य कर्म के उपद्रव · भेषजकर्मोपद्रव
The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.
Condition
Emaciation (karshya)
कार्श्य (दुबलापन) · कार्श्य
A thin body, like a stout one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.
Question
How does the text treat an injured eye?
ग्रंथ चोटग्रस्त आँख की चिकित्सा कैसे बताता है?
If the eye has not left its place, ghee is smeared and a bandage bound; if it is ruptured and hanging, it is separated and treated by the wound procedure, with sudation, plasters, smoking,…
Principle
Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
Procedure
Treatment of an injured eye that is ruptured
भिन्न नेत्राभिघात की चिकित्सा · भिन्ननेत्राभिघात चिकित्सा
If the injured eye is ruptured and still hangs attached, the text says to separate it and treat it by the wound procedure described earlier, together with sudation, plasters, medicated…
Topic
Treatment of eye injury with rupture of the eye
भिन्न नेत्राभिघात की चिकित्सा · भिन्ननेत्राभिघात चिकित्सा
If the injured eye is ruptured and still hangs attached, it is separated and treated by the wound procedure described earlier; sudation, plasters, medicated smoking, nasya and nourishing…
Procedure
Nourishing the thin body
क्षीण शरीर को समकरणोपाय · कृशबृंहण
The text says the thin body is to be made plump with unctuous, nourishing medicines, food and drink, natural thinness to be nourished with effort, water commended and milk given after…
Topic
Uses of the vata-reducing oil, and Mithuna oil
वातहर तैल का उपयोग और मिथुन तैल · वातहर तैल का उपयोग
This oil is to be used in akshepaka, apatanaka and the major vata diseases for nasal therapy, nourishing the head (tarpana), affusion, massage and enemas. An oil called Mithuna, prepared…
Formulation
Vata-reducing oil
वातहर तैल
Oil cooked with a paste and decoction of well-known vata-reducing drugs, jujube and barley water, horse-gram soup, curd, milk, sour fruits and ghee; it is to be used in apatanaka and the…