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Condition
Urinary obstruction (mutraghata)
मूत्राघात (पेशाब रुकना) · मूत्राघात
In verses 39 to 52 the text describes urinary obstruction (mutraghata, glossed मूत्रावरोध) in the forms vatakundalika, mutrashthilika, vatabasti, mutratita, mutrajathara, mutrotsanga,…
Topic
Section on urinary obstruction
मूत्राघात अधिकार · मूत्राघाताधिकारः
Opens the section on urinary obstruction (mutraghata), which a footnote glosses as मूत्रावरोध, describing its kinds in verses 39 to 52.
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…
Principle
Stages of dosha disturbance (accumulation, aggravation, spread)
दोषों का संचय, प्रकोप और प्रसर · संचय
The introduction says Ayurvedic diagnosis mainly considers the vitiation of the doṣas, which arises from many different causes: the doṣas accumulate, become aggravated and spread (caya,…
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.
Remedy
Cardamom and asafoetida in milk with ghee and jaggery
घी-गुड़ सहित दूध में इलायची और हींग
Powder of small cardamom and asafoetida with ghee and jaggery, drunk with milk, is said to destroy various kinds of urinary obstruction and semen-related urinary diseases.
Topic
Madhukadi preparations
मधुकादि योग
Powder or paste of licorice, turmeric, devadaru, kantakari, small cardamom, nut grass and amalaki is drunk with sour gruel, milk or rice water; amalaki juice (one kuduba, 16 tola) alone or…
Condition
Mutrajathara (abdominal distension from retained urine)
मूत्रजठर
A form of urinary obstruction in which suppressed urine drives vata upward to distend the lower abdomen with severe pain.
Condition
Mutrakshaya (depletion of urine)
मूत्रक्षय
A form of urinary obstruction in dry, fluid-depleted people, in which pitta and vata in the bladder destroy the urine.
Condition
Mutrashmari (stone-like knot at the bladder outlet)
मूत्राश्मरी
A form of urinary obstruction in which urine dried by vata and pitta forms a hard round knot at the bladder outlet; a footnote says other texts call it mutragranthi.
Condition
Mutrashthilika (hardened urinary mass)
मूत्राष्ठीलिका
A form of urinary obstruction in which urine dried by aggravated vata becomes a large stone-like mass blocking stool, urine and wind.
Condition
Mutratita (urine failing after suppression)
मूत्रातीत
A form of urinary obstruction in which urine held back does not come when the person later tries to pass it, or comes scantily with pain.
Condition
Mutrotsanga (urine held up in the passage)
मूत्रोत्संग
A form of urinary obstruction in which flowing urine is held up in the penis or at the bladder outlet and comes out slowly with pain, sometimes with blood.
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
Signs of mutratita
मूत्रातीत के लक्षण · मूत्रातीत लक्षण
When a person who has held back urine later wishes to pass it, it does not come, or comes only in small amounts with straining and pain; this is mutratita. A footnote on the page glosses…
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…
Condition
Vatabasti (vata blocking the bladder outlet)
वातबस्ति
A form of urinary obstruction in which vata, aggravated by suppressing urine, closes the bladder outlet and causes retention with pain.
Condition
Vatakundalika (coiling vata in the bladder)
वातकुंडलिका · वातकुण्डलिका
A form of urinary obstruction in which aggravated vata coils with the urine in the bladder, so that urine is passed late, scantily and with pain.
Topic
Signs of urinary gravel
शर्करा के लक्षण · शर्करा-लक्षण
The dried kapha, struck by strong vata, breaks into two, three or many pieces; lodged in the urinary passage they cause intense pain in the waist, groin, bladder and penis. The verse also…