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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
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
Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)
वात रोग · वातव्याधि
Vata is presented as the root cause of many local and whole-body diseases. Each of the five vayus, aggravated in its own seat, causes the diseases of that seat; joined with kapha, pitta or…
Topic
Emesis and other procedures in fevers from oleation and drying
स्नेहज और रूक्षज ज्वरों में वमन आदि का प्रयोग · स्नेह व रूक्षोत्थित ज्वरों में वमनादि प्रयोग
In fever from excess oleation emesis and purgation are given, and in fever from excess drying enema therapy; in a long-standing severe fever from dryness, milk or ghee with jaggery and long…
Topic
Procedure for drinking fat (internal oleation)
स्नेहपान की विधि · स्नेहपान विधि
Oleation (snehana) is making the body unctuous by taking ghee, oil or another fat. The bowel is of three kinds, soft from pitta, medium from kapha and hard from vata, and ghee is given for…
Topic
Purgation and other procedures in vata-type abhishyanda
वाताभिष्यन्द में विरेचन आदि प्रयोग
After oleation the patient is purged, and venesection (siravimoksha) and enema are done; nasal therapy, putapaka, tarpana, smoking, sudation and leaf bandaging are also applied. An…
Principle
Sixty therapeutic measures
साठ उपक्रम · षष्टि उपक्रम
The commentary lists the measures in order: drying, plastering, affusion, rubbing, heating (sudation), bandaging, scraping, bursting open, dissolving, nasal therapy, drinking, holding…
Procedure
Treatment of fevers from excess oleation or excess drying
स्नेह व रूक्षोत्थित ज्वर चिकित्सा
Fever from excess oleation is treated with a drying regimen of warm peya, vilepi and pulse soups and with emesis and purgation; fever from excess drying is treated with oleation using…
Topic
Treatment of greatly increased vata
अति बढ़े हुए वात की चिकित्सा · अतिवृद्ध वात चिकित्सा
For greatly increased vata disorders the full range of procedures told earlier is to be used as needed: oleation, emesis, pastes, purgation, oil massage, fumigation, mouth-holding (kavala),…