Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita
by Laxmi Maji | 2021 | 143,541 words
This page relates ‘Treatment of Bhagandara (fistula in the anus)’ found in the study on diseases and remedies found in the Atharvaveda and Charaka-samhita. These texts deal with Ayurveda—the ancient Indian Science of life—which lays down the principles for keeping a sound health involving the use of herbs, roots and leaves. The Atharvaveda refers to one of the four Vedas (ancient Sanskrit texts encompassing all kinds of knowledge and science) containing many details on Ayurveda, which is here taken up for study.
Treatment of Bhagandara (fistula in the anus)
In Atharvaveda Bhagandara or fistula in the anus is boil or Nāsura. Atharvaveda speaks about the treatment of this disease. Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya says, if you ride, elephant, horse etc., if you perform painful and severe asana, on forcefully controlling the pressure of excretion, excessively passionate sex, you can have this disease[1]. For fistula patients, it is very important to have a cleansed stomach. In the Atharvaveda, the following medicine is beneficial for fistula like Arka, and Srekaparṇa etc.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
hastyaśvapṛṣṭhagamanakaṭhinotkaṭakāsanaiḥ |
arśonidānābhihitaiparaiśca niṣevitaiḥ ||
aniṣṭādṛṣṭapākena sadyo vā sādhugarhaṇaiḥ |
prāyeṇa piṭikāparvo yo'ṅgulo hyaṅgule'pi vā ||
pāyorvraṇo'ntarbāhyo vā duṣṭāsṛṅmāṃsago bhavet |
bastimūtrāśayābhyāsagatatvātsyandanātmakaḥ ||
bhagandaraḥ sa sarvāśca dārayatyakriyāvataḥ |
bhagabastigudāṃsteṣu dīryamāṇeṣu bhūribhiḥ ||
vātamūtraśakṛcchu kraṃ khaiḥ sūkṣmairvamati kramāt |
doṣaiḥ pṛthagyutaiḥ sarvairāgantuḥ so'ṣṭamaḥ smṛtaḥ || (Aṣṭā. H. –Uttarasthāna- 28/1-5); Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayaṃ of Vāgbhaṭṭa Vol. III, trans. K. R. Srikantha Murthy, Varanasi, Chaukhambha Krishnadas Academy, 2018, pp.265-266.