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Treatment of Ulcers (Vrana Pratisedha) in Ashtang Hridayam of Vaghbhat

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 Treatment of Ulcers (Vrana Pratisedha) in Ashtang Hridayam of Vaghbhat We will now expound the treatment of ulcers described by Atreya and other great sages.  Treatment of Ulcer  Types of ulcer:  Vrana are of two kinds viz, Nija (organic) and Agantu (traumatic); and dusta (vitiated, foul ) and suddha (unvitiated, clean); nija is caused by dosas (aggravated) in the body, agantu by external causes; dusta is that in which the dosas are localised and suddha is that which is free from localisation of the dosas. 1-2a.  Vitiated ulcer:  Either contraction or expansion; hardness or softness; too much of elevation of depression; too much of warmth ( feeling of heat) or cold; too much of redness or paleness; black colouration, discharge of foul smelling pus; foul smelling muscle, veins, or tendons covering the ulcer at its top; severe pain, profound distress, burning sensation, swelling itching and other complication associating and persisting for a long time—are th...
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Treatment of traumatic wounds (Sadyovrana Chikitsa) in Astangahrdaya of Vagbhata

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 Treatment of traumatic wounds (Sadyovrana Chikitsa) in Astangahrdaya of Vagbhata We shall now expound the chapter– Sadyovrana chikitsa [treatment of wounds which occur suddenly (traumatic wounds)]; Thus said atreya and other great sages. Sadyovrana are those which occur suddenly due to trauma/injury; though innumerable localised in defferent parts of the body, these are classified as of eight kinds viz, ghrsta, avakrtta, vicchinna, pravilambita, patita, viddha, bhinna and vidalita. 1-2a. Ghrsta is that which exudes lasika (lymph) alone or mixed with little of blood, associated with burning sensation; Avagadha is severe than ghrsta and Vicchinna still more severe than avagadha. Pravilambi is that in which only the bone remains in the place; patita is that in which the injured part has fallen off from (seperated) from the body; Viddha is a wound with small orifice caused by a foreign body any where on the body except the kostha (organs inside the trunk); such a wound occuring i...
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Treatment of wrinkles on the scalp in Vaghbhatt's Ashatng Hridayam

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 Treatment of wrinkles on the scalp in Vaghbhatt's Ashatng Hridayam In khalati, palita, vali (wrinkles on the scalp) and haritaloma (brown hair) prifactory therapies followed by nasal medication, anointing the face and head and application of paste of drugs should be resorted to. 33. Medicated oil prepared with drugs of brhatyadi (hrisva pancamula) and jivaniya gana (chapter 15 of sutrasthana) should be used for nasal medication; or nimba taila be used as nasal medication, for one month; the patient should drink only milk and lead the life of an ascetic. 34.  Seeds of selu, vaksa, tila and rama, saoked and macerated in the juice of nili, sirisa, koranta and bhrnga and again with goat’s milk is taken in the quantity equal to kakandaka (egg of a crow) and pasted on an iron plate and exposed to sunlight. The oil that exudes from it used as nasal drops by the person who takes only milk as food; cures palita. 35-36. Medicated oil prepared with one prastha each of milk, juice of sah...
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