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Symptom
Pain (shula)
शूल (दर्द) · शूल
A pricking pain that moves about in the abdomen is given as the brief sign of aggravated vāta.
Condition
Painful urination (mutrakricchra)
मूत्रकृच्छ्र (पेशाब में कष्ट) · मूत्रकृच्छ्र
Mutrakricchra is presented as eight further kinds of urinary obstruction (ghata read as kricchra, difficult passing) arising from the three doshas, their combination, injury, faeces, gravel…
Condition
Painful gum swelling with discharge (shushira)
सुषिर
Painful swelling of the gums from kapha and blood with a discharge of kapha; rubbed with kushtha, antimony, lodhra and musta.
Condition
Sciatica (gridhrasi)
गृध्रसी (साइटिका) · गृध्रसी
Gridhrasi is described as violent vata tormenting the tendons of the hands and feet so that the limbs feel broken, with unbearable pain at those sites.
Condition
Anyatovata (referred vata pain)
अन्यतोवात
A vata disease linking the eye and brow with severe splitting pain in the vessel of the head, the ear, the jaw and the neck.
Condition
Cutting pain (parikartika)
परिकर्तिका (कैंची से कतरने जैसी पीड़ा) · परिकर्तिका
A severe cutting pain, here a complication of purification with a very dry drug in a weak person with low fire and a soft bowel; the text treats it with milk enemas and a milk diet.
Condition
Conjunctivitis (abhishyanda)
अभिष्यन्द (आंख आना) · अभिष्यन्द
Abhishyanda is presented as the cause and basis of all eye diseases, arising from the individual doshas; the text gives vata, pitta, blood and kapha types with their signs and treatment.
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
Splitting tooth pain (dalana)
दालन
A vata disease of the teeth with pain as if the teeth were being split open.
Condition
Vatakantaka (ankle pain from vata)
वातकंटक · वातकण्टक
Vata aggravated by placing the feet unevenly or by overexertion settles in the ankle joint and causes pain there; this is called vatakantaka.
Condition
Vataparyaya (alternating vata pain of eye and brow)
वातपर्यय
An eye disease from aggravated vata in which pain shifts by turns between the eye, the brow and the eyelids.
Topic
Loss of life-blood, bloating and cutting pain, with treatment
जीवादान, आध्मान और परिकर्तिका के लक्षण व चिकित्सा · जीवादान, आध्मान, परिकर्तिका लक्षण व उनकी चिकित्सा
If the purifying medicine brings out life-giving blood (jivadana), cooling treatment and cold, blood-stopping drugs are used. A dry purifier taken by someone with indigestion and much vata…
Topic
Marmas fatal on removing the dart, disabling and painful
विशल्यघ्न, वैकल्यकर और रुजाकर मर्म · विशल्यघ्न, वैकल्यकर व रुजाकर मर्म
Utkshepaka and sthapani kill when the lodged dart is drawn out; forty-eight marmas, from janu and urvi to krikatika and katikataruna, cause disability; eight (four kurchashira, two…
Procedure
Treatment of painful blood-born eye diseases
पीड़ायुक्त रक्तज नेत्ररोग की चिकित्सा
For blood-born eye diseases with intense pain the text lists eye drops, collyrium, nasya, putapaka, medicated smoking, tarpana, plaster and thick paste, prepared with unctuous, cooling and…
Topic
Treatment of painful blood-born eye diseases
पीड़ायुक्त रक्तज नेत्ररोगों की चिकित्सा · पीडायुक्त रक्तज नेत्ररोग चिकित्सा
When a blood-born eye disease is very painful, eye drops, collyrium, nasya, putapaka, medicated smoking, tarpana, plasters and thick pastes prepared with unctuous, cooling and warm groups…
Organ
Pancreas
अग्न्याशय
Symptom
Headache (shirahshula)
सिरदर्द · शिरःशूल
Condition
Joint disorder (sandhigata vata)
संधिवात (जोड़ों का दर्द) · सन्धिवात
Procedure
Daily purification and uttara basti for painful urination
मूत्रकृच्छ्र में शोधन और उत्तरबस्ति
For mutrakricchra the text says the patient's body is purified every day and uttara basti is then applied.
Topic
Eight kinds of painful urination
आठ प्रकार के मूत्रकृच्छ्र
Mutrakricchra is of eight kinds: from vata, pitta, kapha, all three together, injury, faeces, gravel (sharkara) and stone (ashmari).
Topic
Remedies that remove painful urination
मूत्रकृच्छ्र नाशक योग · मूत्रकृच्छ्रनाशक योग
A paste of cucumber (trapusa) seeds, one aksha (one tola per the commentary), drunk with good sour gruel, and the salt group taken with gruel are said to calm even severe mutrakricchra.
Topic
Section on painful urination
मूत्रकृच्छ्र अधिकार · अथ मूत्रकृच्छ्राधिकारः
Having described the signs and treatment of urinary obstruction, the author turns to the eight further kinds of ghata, which a footnote says the teachers read as kricchra (passing with…
Topic
Treatment of painful urination
मूत्रकृच्छ्र की चिकित्सा · मूत्रकृच्छ्र चिकित्सा
The treatment of mutrakricchra will be given with all suitable drugs; every day the patient's body is purified and uttara basti is then applied.
Herb
Tambula (betel leaf)
पान (तांबूल) · ताम्बूल
Chewing betel is said to increase happiness, good fortune, fragrance, contentment, lustre, cheerfulness and pleasant desire; it keeps the face bright, the mind content and the mouth moist,…