Bastivyapat Siddhi: Difference between revisions

• Initially when murcha is seen, cold water sprinkling should be done on face.

• Followed by rubbing on sides of chest, abdomen and lower parts of body and cooling with fan.

• Raise the patient holding his hair only, into air and shake.

• Frighten him by ox, donkey, horse, elephant, lion, servants of king, snakes, ulka (fiery meteor), or by other threatening things.

• These cause adhopravartana of basti (normal intestinal movement will be restored).

• Press the throat (kantha) with either cloth or hand, taking care to prevent any death.

• This obstruction of throat leads to obstructing prana and udana vata, thus laeading apana vata to take its normal path, reaches basti and eliminates the dosha.

• Then administer drink made with one aksha (karsha=12g)  of kramuka (Areca catechu Linn.) paste along with amla (sour) dravya.

• Due to ushna (hot), teekshna (sharply acting), sara (moving) qualities, basti does anulomana (normalize peristaltic movements).

• If bastidravya stabilises in pakvashaya (large instestine), after swedana, niruha basti has to be administered prepared with dashamula (bilva, agnimantha, shyonaka, patala, gambhari, brihati, kantakari, shaliparni, prishniparni and gokshura) or yava (Hordeum vulgare Linn.), kola (Zizyphus jujube Ram.), kulattha (Dolichos biflorus Linn.), with gomutra (cow urine).

• If bastidravya is in ura-pradesha (chest region), administer niruha basti prepared of bilvadipanchamula decoction (roots of bilva (Aegle marmelos Carr.), agnimantha (Premna integrifolia Linn), shyonaka (Oroxylum indicum Vent.), patala (Stereospermum suaveolens DC.) and gambhari (Gmelina arborea Linn.).

• If basti dravya stay in head, administer navana (nasal administration), dhuma (smoke therapy) and external application of sarshapa (Brassica campestris Var. sarson prain) paste on head. (32-39)