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Vidari (Indian kudzu)

विदारीकंद (विदारी) · विदारी

Vidārī tuber is listed among tubers described as heavy to digest, cold, kapha-increasing, sweet, suitable in raktapitta, helping to pass stool and urine, and semen-increasing.

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Condition

Vidarika

विदारिका

A minor disease from all three doshas: a round, fixed, large, heavy swelling like the vidari tuber in the groin and armpit, treated according to the doshas.

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Glossary entry

विदारी

विदारीकन्द

हिन्दी: विदारीकन्द, शालवन, एक प्रकार का कंठरोग · मराठी: भुयकोहोळा, गलरोग, कर्णपालीरोग, सुवर्चला, वाराही, क्षीरकंकोळी, कंकोली, अर्जुन, भद्रवि

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Features of vidarika

विदारिका के लक्षण · विदारिका लक्षण

From the three doshas, a round, fixed, large and heavy swelling like the vidari tuber arises in the groin and armpit region, showing the features of all three doshas; it is called vidarika…

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Signs of vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata

विदारिका, विद्रधिका, अलजी और विनता के लक्षण · विदारी, विद्रधि, विनता का लक्षण

Vidarika is hard and round like the vidari tuber and painful; vidradhi, painful and arising from all the doshas, is of five kinds but is described here as two, savarnaka and shighravidahi;…

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Shalaparni

सरिवन (शालपर्णी) · शालपर्णी

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भूकूष्माण्डी (भूकूष्माण्ड)

विदारीकन्द

हिन्दी: विदारीकन्द · मराठी: भुयकोहोळा

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वृक्षादनी

कुदा

हिन्दी: कुदा, विदारी कन्द · मराठी: बादांगुळ

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Vriddhadaru (elephant creeper)

विधारा (वृद्धदारु) · वृद्धदारु

Vidhārā (the verse word is bṛhacchagalikā) is listed among greens described as binding the stool and producing vata.

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Vichari (pitta swelling of the whole mouth)

विचारी

A disease of the whole mouth from strongly aggravated pitta: swelling with burning, foul smell, suppuration, spreading sinew strands and high fever; called dreadful and listed among the…

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बृहच्छगलिका

विधारा

हिन्दी: विधारा · मराठी: वरणार, चोपचेन्नी

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श्यामा

शारिबा

हिन्दी: शारिबा, फूलप्रियंगु, बावची, श्यामपनिलर, नीलक वृक्ष, गूगल, सोमलता, भद्रमोथा, मोतीतृण, गिलोय, वान्दा, कस्तूरी, पीपला, हलदी, मोली, दूब, तुलसी, कमलगट्टा, विधारा, कालीसार · मराठी: लघु…

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Prameha boils

प्रमेह पिटिका · प्रमेहपिटका

Ten kinds of boils said to occur in prameha patients, each named after its form; they arise from the three doshas and show their signs.

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Kaseru

कशेरु · कशेरुक

Kaśeru is listed with lotus tuber, the blue water lily, the nālī tuber and vidārī as tubers that are heavy to digest, cold, kapha-increasing, good and sweet, suitable in raktapitta, helping…

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Formulation

Nāgabalā and other rasāyanas

नागबलादि रसायन

Likewise the powder of nāgabalā (गंगेरन) and atibalā (the commentary: सहदेई, कंघी) is drunk with milk in the morning, or the powder of vidārī with milk; this is said to give great strength,…

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Nāgabalā and other rasāyanas

नागबलादि रसायन

Likewise powders of nāgabalā and atibalā, or of vidārī, taken with milk in the morning, are said to give great strength, long life and a fine body.

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Ingredient

Pitta-destroying group of drugs

पित्तनाशक गण

The pitta-destroying group is kunduru, neem, clove, liquorice, sahadevi, gangeran, vidari tuber, kakoli, vrishchikali, rasaunt, mahua flowers, vetiver, mango, banana, musta, hribera, lotus,…

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Properties of lotus tuber and similar tubers

शालूक आदि कंदशाकों के गुण · शालूक आदि कंदशाक गुण

Lotus tuber, kaśeru, the blue water-lily group, the tuber of nālī greens, vidārī and similar tubers are described as heavy to digest, cold, kapha-increasing, good and sweet, suitable in…

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Shabaradi ghee and oil

शबरादि घृत

Ghee and oil cooked with white lodhra, ashvagandha, asthisamhara, vidari, gokshura, kapikacchu seeds, nutmeg and white gourd are rubbed on the body daily with massage; consumption is said…

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Formulation

Slimy enema

पिच्छिल बस्ति

Enemas prepared from water boiled with the slimy drug group, such as shleshmataka (lisoda), shalmali, vidari, jujube and nagabala, with ghee, milk and pastes, called slimy enemas.

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Slimy enema

पिच्छिल बस्ति

Enemas prepared from water boiled with the slimy group, such as shleshmataka (lisoda), shalmali, vidari, jujube and nagabala, with ghee, milk and pastes, are called slimy (picchila) enemas.

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The pitta-destroying group of drugs

पित्तनाशक गण

Kunduru, neem, clove, liquorice, sahadevi, gangeran, vidari tuber, kakoli, vrishchikali, rasaunt, mahua flowers, vetiver, mango, banana, musta, hribera, lotus, jalabet, sandalwood,…

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The ten prameha boils

दस प्रकार की प्रमेहपिटिकाएँ · दशविध प्रमेहपिटकाः

Prameha patients get ten kinds of boils: sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata.

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Question

Which ten boils (pidaka) are said to occur in prameha patients, and how are they treated?

प्रमेह के रोगियों में कौन-सी दस पिटिकाएँ बताई गई हैं और उनकी चिकित्सा कैसे होती है?

Sharavika, sarshapika, jalini, putrini, kacchapika, masurika, vidarika, vidradhika, alaji and vinata; they are treated with leeches and strong purgation, ripening applications, incision,…

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