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Therapy
Sudation therapy (svedana)
स्वेदन (सेंक) · स्वेदन
Bringing out sweat from the body by any means is called sudation.
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…
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,…
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
Sudation for vata pervading the whole body
सर्वदेहगत वात में अवगाहन और धान्यराशि स्वेद · सर्वदेहाश्रितवात स्वेदन
For vata spread through the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and an enema is given…
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…
Topic
Treatment of vata pervading the whole body
सारे शरीर में व्याप्त वात की चिकित्सा · सर्वदेहाश्रित वात चिकित्सा
When vata pervades the whole body, the patient is sweated by sitting in a decoction of vata-pacifying drugs (avagahana) and by lying on a heap of cooked grain, and enema therapy (basti) is…