The Wealth of Indian Alchemy and Its Medicinal Uses
author: B. Mukherji
edition: 1998, Sri Satguru Publications
pages: 741
ISBN-10: 8170305829
ISBN-13: 9788170305828
Topic: Rasashastra
Chapter 28 - Asthma and Hiccough
This page describes Asthma and Hiccough which is the twenty-eighth chapter located on pages 541-550 in the book The wealth of Indian alchemy composed by B. Mukherji. This book is a compendium of medicinal practices related to Indian alchemy, a branch of Ayurveda known as Rasashastra. It deals with topics such as purification of metals, minerals and previous stones. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Asthma and Hiccough” according to 38 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 5: Treatment of various afflictions [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Smoking in hiccough and asthma. (1) Smoking of any one of the following may pacify hiccough realger, cow’s horn, kustha, resin, and kusha grass. (2) Hiccough is pacified by inhaling the smoke of hingu and powdered masa gram, thrown upon smokeless charcoal fire. (3) Hiccough is pacified by inhaling the smoke of masa grams only. (4) Asthma is cured by inhaling the smoke of the fruits, branches, and leaves of black dhatura, previously cut into pieces and dried....
Read full contents: Chapter 4 - Symptoms and treatment of Asthma (shvasa) and Cough (hikka)
Sushruta Samhita, Volume 6: Uttara-tantra [by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna]
Symptoms and Treatment of Asthma (Shvasa). Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the (symptoms and) medical treatment of Asthma (Shvasa-Pratishedha). 1. Ætiology:— To the same group of exciting factors which bring in an attack of hiccough should be attributed the origin of that voilent disease which is known as Svasa (asthma)....
Read full contents: Chapter LI - Symptoms and Treatment of Asthma (Shvasa)
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Sleeping in day time may be recommended for the time being for the following:—those who have resorted to an excess of physical exercise, walking, and sexual indulgence; those who are extremely fatigued, sufferers from diarrhoea (including cholera), colic, asthma, hiccough, insanity, and temporary indigestion; these who are extremely lean, those who are much deficient in phlegm, infants, those who are under the influenee of liquor, old men, those who had to keep late hours at night, and those who...
Read full contents: Part 9 - Restrictions regarding sleeping in day time
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