Explore the knowledge
Search in any script or spelling. Combine filters: values inside one filter widen the results, different filters narrow them.
Showing 7 of 7 entries
Condition
Scrotal swelling (vriddhi)
वृद्धि (अंडवृद्धि) · अण्डवृद्धि
Scrotal enlargement (vriddhi) is described as swelling of the scrotum produced when a dosha, aggravated by its own causes, reaches the vessel of the scrotum with the help of vata; seven…
Condition
Compound poisons (garavisha)
गरविष
Here the text describes dūṣīviṣa, latent or weakened poison: how a poison loses strength and lingers in the body, how it is later roused, and the many disorders it then causes.
Condition
Genital ulcer disease (upadamsha)
उपदंश
Upadamsha is described as a swelling arising on the penis, treated like the kinds of scrotal enlargement according to dosha; a footnote lists its causes and five kinds, and verse 5 gives…
Topic
Disorders caused by latent poison
दूषीविष से होने वाले विकार · दूषीविषजन्य लक्षण
When provoked, dūṣīviṣa causes vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever, burning, breathlessness, cough, intermittent fever, swelling, insanity, diarrhoea and abdominal disease such as…
Herb
Sukhahva
सुखाह्व
Its root is used in the plaster for scrotal enlargement; the commentary describes it only as a drug that destroys the swelling.
Topic
Treatment of all lip diseases
सब ओष्ठ रोगों की चिकित्सा · सर्व ओष्ठरोग चिकित्सा
Lips split by injury with much swelling are the injury type. Each lip disease is treated with dosha-specific drugs, plasters, fomentation and bloodletting as needed, or by the methods for…
Topic
Treatment of upadamsha
उपदंश की चिकित्सा · उपदंश चिकित्सा
The treatment sequences given earlier for the different kinds of scrotal enlargement are to be applied, according to the dosha, to upadamsha, the swelling of the penis, and also to all…