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Condition
Semen disorders (shukradosha)
शुक्रदोष (वीर्य दोष) · शुक्रदोष
Chapter 23 describes defects of semen, together with those of menstrual blood, arising from the single doshas, from blood, from kapha with vata, from pitta with blood, from all three doshas…
Question
How does the text judge the curability of disorders of semen and menstrual blood?
ग्रंथ शुक्र और आर्तव के विकारों की साध्यता के बारे में क्या कहता है?
Disorders from vata, pitta or kapha singly are curable and are overcome with oleation, sudation and similar procedures; the corpse-smelling, pus-like, foul and knotted kinds are difficult…
Procedure
Purifying treatment of disorders of semen and menstrual blood
शुक्र व आर्तव विकार की शोधन चिकित्सा
In the five great disorders of semen, oleation, emesis, purgation, niruha and anuvasana are applied and then the uttarabasti. In disorders of menstrual blood the procedures from oleation up…
Topic
Treatment of disorders of semen and menstrual blood
शुक्र और आर्तव विकार की चिकित्सा · शुक्र व आर्तव विकार की चिकित्सा
For the five great disorders of semen, oleation, emesis, purgation, niruha and anuvasana are applied and then the uttarabasti. In disorders of menstrual blood the same procedures up to the…
Topic
Primacy of uttarabasti in seed disorders; treatment of corpse-smelling semen
रज-वीर्य विकार में उत्तरबस्ति की प्रधानता और कुणपगंधि वीर्य की चिकित्सा · रजोवीर्य के विकार में उत्तरबस्ति का प्रधानत्व व कुणपगंधि वीर्य चिकित्सा
Uttarabasti alone is called the proper means of removing the defects of semen and menstrual blood, being especially able to do so. In corpse-smelling semen the patient, purified by emesis…
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.
Food
Cow milk (go-ksheera)
गाय का दूध (गोक्षीर) · गोक्षीर
Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.
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
Udavarta (upward movement of vata)
उदावर्त
Udavarta is the upward turning of wind, faeces, urine and the like when natural urges are held back: provoked apana rises into udana. Seven kinds are named by the urge held back, and all…
Therapy
Urethral and vaginal douche (uttara basti)
उत्तर बस्ति · उत्तरबस्ति
A footnote defines uttara basti as an injection with a syringe (basti) given into the penis or the vagina.
Principle
Vata dosha
वात दोष · वात
Continuing the account of digestion, the introduction says the food is moved onward by a propulsive action, and samāna vāyu is needed for this and to keep the food moist; its actions of…
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…
Condition
Disorders of menstrual blood (artava dosha)
आर्तव के विकार · आर्तवदोष
Defects of the menstrual blood (artava, rajas), which the text classifies together with those of semen by dosha, blood and excessive intercourse, and treats with purification up to the…
Procedure
Effects of successive oil enemas
क्रमिक स्नेहबस्ति के गुण
The text says that, given by the rule, the first oil enema oils the groin region, the second removes vata from the whole body, the third gives lustre, colour and strength, the fourth oils…
Topic
Effects of successive oil enemas
क्रमिक स्नेहबस्ति के गुण · बस्ति के गुण
Given by the rule, the first oil enema oils the groin region, the second removes vata from the whole body, the third brings lustre, colour and strength, the fourth and fifth oil rasa and…
Topic
Number of uttarabasti applications
बस्ति की संख्या · बस्ति का प्रमाण
The uttarabasti with the stated fluids is to be given three or four times, according to the strength of the disease, to calm severe disorders of menstrual blood and semen; the diseases of…
Topic
Prognosis, and treatment of seed disorders from single doshas
साध्यासाध्य विचार और वातादि दोषजन्य वीर्य रोग की चिकित्सा · साध्यासाध्य विचार और वातादिदोषजन्य वीर्यरोग की चिकित्सा
Disorders of semen and menstrual blood from vata, pitta or kapha singly are curable; the corpse-smelling, pus-like, foul and knotted kinds are difficult to cure, and the faeces-smelling…
Topic
Special virtue of the uttarabasti
उत्तरबस्ति का विशेष गुण
Uttarabasti is said to overcome the disorders from that vitiated blood, raktapradara, severe painful urination and urinary obstruction, bladder diseases from many doshas, diseases of the…
Question
What effects does the text attribute to the first ten oil enemas of a series?
ग्रंथ के अनुसार क्रम से दी गई पहली दस स्नेहबस्तियों के क्या प्रभाव हैं?
The first oils the groin, the second removes vata from the whole body, the third gives lustre, colour and strength, the fourth to seventh oil rasa, blood, flesh and fat, the eighth and…