Monday, November 12, 2018

Raktapitta - it's understanding and management according to #Ayurveda



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Gary Yuen: Is the first step reducing kapha? Gavedukha (weight) uddālaka (wild kodrava? for fat) and mung. Kalamegha useful or among best for kapha?
Shahil H Bhavsar: In summer time many persons experience epistaxis. It is very common type of urdhvag raktpitta. Simple home remedy for urdhvag raktpitta is ushir swaras given by nasya
Dr. Jyoti Ashok: Milk or ghee nasya cures nasagata raktapitta. If the pitta is too much then you have to give some pitta rechaka medicines like patola katukarohini kashaya Or Katuki Or Pancha tikta grita  Acc to dosha.
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Ayulink: Can someone from the group (student) highlight the basics of urdhvag raktapitta? like samprapti, causes, major symptoms etc?
Shahil H Bhavsar:
Samprapti: Due to nidan sevan(ex. Katu amla lavana kshar pittavardhak substances)
Pitta will increase and get associated with rakta.
Rakta and pitta both are in ashray-ashrayi bhaav and similar mahabhut.
So rakta will increase in quantity and attain character like pitta(bad odour,colour)
This increased and vitiated blood will expelled out from above orifices(nose,eyes,ears,mouth).
This is called urdhvag raktpitta.

There is another pathology associated with it.
The hotness of pitta (and now rakta also) will make the other dhatu liquify and cause secretions of liquid portion from dhatu.
In this phenomena mainly pitta rakta and raktavaha srotas are affected.
But according to dosha dominancy
It is also kaphaj,pittaj and vataj type.
Madhav also described 2dosha and tridoshaj type.
According to madhav acharya urdhvag raktpitta is from amashaya.
And adhog is from pakwashaya.
Vd. Hardik bhatt: why pitta comes from urdhwag stotras..?
Dr Jayesh Patel: Due to agni mahabhut??
Gary Yuen: Expulsion from above is said to be associated with kapha in Caraka Vi 4.23. Though not all agree. Cakrapāṇidatta is supposed to have a commentary. Maybe someone can share. It's said hemanta, Nov/Dec is a favorable time for treatment of raktapitta. Can someone please explain?
Dr. Mrugeshkumar Patel: Adhogat raktapitt from anus vat srung +sakar (chark) excellent result ,satavary + gokshura mutra gat raktapitta excellent result
Gary Yuen: Raktapitta treatment from Caraka Ci 4. With difficulty of ingredients, suggested alternatives?
The patient who feels thirsty should be given water boiled with hribera, candana, usira, musta and prapataka or only cooled boiled water. One having knowledge of constitution and preparation should prescribe saturating drink in upward raktapitta and liquid gruel in the downward one considering time, suitability and association of dosas. For saturation, water boiled with kharjura, mrdwika (fruits), madhuka (dry flowers) and parusaka (fruit) and cooled along with sugar.
Powder of parched paddy mixed with ghee and honey makes a good saturating preparation which, if taken timely, alleviates the upward raktapitta. The … preparation may be soured with pomegranates and amalaka fruits in persons having …
The patients of raktapitta should take meal consisting of the cereals of sali, sastika, nivara, koradusa/kodrava, prasantika, syamaka and priyangu. For them gram, lentils, green grams, makustha and adhaki are commended for the pulse-soup. The vegetables useful in raktapitta arc patola, nimba, tip of vetra, tender leaves of plaksa and vetasa, kiratatikta, gandira/kandira and kathillaka/punarnava. The flowers of kovidara, kasmarya and salmali are also used as vegetable in diet and also similar substances which alleviate raktapitta. These vegetables should be prepared by boiling or frying with ghee or like soup and given to the vegetarian patients as vegetable. Dove, pigeon, common quail, raktaksa (crane), vartaka (a quail), grey partridge, ena, harina and kalapucchaka (types of dear) are wholesome in raktapitta. Their soups are used soured or unsoured, fried with ghee and added with sugar. In (raktapitta) associated with kapha vegetable soup and in that with vata meat-soup is prescribed. Now for raktapitta, preparations of gruel will be described.
The stamens of lotus and water lily, prsniparni and priyangu grains should be boiled in water. In the same decoction liquid gruel be prepared for the patients of raktapitta. Gruel may also be prepared in the decoction of (1) candana, usira, lodhra, and musta (typo, nagara/sunthi?), (2) Kiratatikta, usira and musta, (3) dhataki, dhanvayasa, hrivera (typo? ambu/balaka) and bilva, (4) masura and prsniparni or sthira/salaparni and mudga, (5) harenuka mixed with ghee, (6) bala, (7) the meat soup of dove etc. These are the gruels useful in raktapitta and should be taken cooled and added with honey and sugar. Such preparation may also be made in meat-soups. Ci 4.36–48
I have tried lotus flower and it is very good. Now use it often in food. Some such villagers still use shatavari as food. Western asparagus should be pitta reducing but not as much, and roots maybe hard to get. Other common ingredients? Lotus should be somewhat easy to find at Chinese markets. Sevanti/chrysanthemum as well.
Vd. Hardik bhatt: pls share recepiy of lotus flower gruel or whatever you made it.
Gary Yuen: I just add it to sambar or thick gruel. Vilepi? What i make daily is not exactly sambar but it is somewhere between thin/thick, peya/vilepi but i try to use classics foods like vastuka, kakamaci, yava, raktashali etc. I just find most bitter vegetables, sour ingredients, a stringent. Choosing ingredients for combining tastes and adjust as needed. More bitter such as lotus just needs more sour, sweet, and fat/oil. And so forth. No specific recipe. Just mixing tastes and adjusting.
Neem shatavari brahmi mandukaparni. Seems some villagers still eat such things as food often.
Of classical preparations, seems manda, gruel water, or peya, thin gruel might have once been most used. It does seem mixing all ingredients in soup/stew, similar to sambar, might be best for general daily food and better also for raktapitta compared to modern habits like dry boiled rice, wheat fried as bread, vegetables fried in oil etc. Frying baking broiling, any method that doesn't use water does seem to make food warmer.
For example lotus can be bitter so i don't use a lot. Maybe 10+ grams in a bowl of food. And then to balance with more sweet, add tomato paste or other sweet ingredients.
It does seem like gruel or soup (yusa) are the traditional preparations and seem also best for general health as well as raktapitta. Preparations, krtanna varga, I hope we can discuss more someday. Cooking method seems to greatly affect doshas.
Ayulink: Pratimarga Harana Chikitsa
In the treatment of Raktapitta, the doshas should be expelled from the opposite route of their course (opposite to the direction of bleeding). Following this pattern, Virechana should be administered in Urdhwaga Raktapitta (bleeding in upper passages, in upward direction) and Vamana should be administered in Adhoga Raktapitta (bleeding in lower passages, in downward direction).

After Vamana, Tarpana i.e. nourishing drinks and food should be administered in Urdhwaga Raktapitta and Yavagu, i.e. gruels (when Vayu is in control) or mamsarasa i.e. meat-soup (in vitiation of vata) should be administered in Adhoga Raktapitta.
Gary Yuen: If virechana is indicated, that would support the idea of kapha. In that case, honey is said to be best for kapha-pitta. Also fasting and a restrictive diet or under-eating (abhakta).
Dr. Meenaxi Verma: If there is  bleeding from nose,mouth then do not give stambhan.  sheetal dravaya lepa, parisheka,gruta manda anuvasan basti.....
Dr. Priyanka Gupta: Usheerasava, cgandanasava, doorva swarasa nasya
Dr. Meenaxi Verma: Vasa kwath 25 ml ×BD. Take allum powder with honey. Naimittika rasayan vasavleha. Before giving any treatment we should know about the cause of bleeding.....
Dr. Bindiya U Shanghvi: Orally?? Dose??
Dr. Meenaxi Verma: 500 mg
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: Why no stambhan?
Dr. Meenaxi Verma: Till dosha nirgamana...should not do stambhana...as in our classics there are lots of complications are given ....after proper dosha nirgaman go for stambhana...it can be  understand only  after   practice ..
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: If Epistaxis is moderate to severe.. Then too?
Dr. Misbah suhana: In epistaxis durva swarasa is also effective as nasya
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: That's does stambhan only. As per Dr meenakshi, stambhan is not primary choice of action..
Dr. Misbah suhana: As she said after dosa nirgamaba v go for shodhana nasya followed by
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: Yeah but in those situations we mostly don't get so much time for dosh pachan. Time taken for dosh pachan depends on severity of dosh itself..if it is to be done essentially(dosh pachan) then it would be lil dangerous due to jiva raktamokshan.. So..
Stambhan of course has its limitations in cases perticulalry Raktapitta. then Choices of drugs ought to be those with Grahi actions(Raktasangrahika) Like,  Priyangu, rasanjan, gairik etc
Dr. Meenaxi Verma: Please refer charak and follow it practically.....after the condition...
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: Yes doc I do follow Regulary
4929: Commonly during summer come across these case so for prevention aspect tender coconut, palmary fruit ( in tamil it's called as nungu)  cucumber, kushmanda,  dhanyaka jala,  ushira jala,  mud pot water,  application of coconutoil or castor oil to head can be advisable.  I some pt due to high bp bleeding through nose seen so it's emergency condition so dhara with cold water can done once bleeding reduces takra with amalaki ushira can done. I case of rakta vamana ulcers in food pipe so have to choose amlapitta nd vrana chikitsa.
Dr. Amrish A Shah: Allum ko Shuth. Allum ko shudhh karke dena
Ayulink: Is epistaxis and Urdhvag raktapitaa or same or similar?
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: Its not either same or similar. But Epistaxis is one of the form of Urdhwag Raktapitta as per definition. Epistaxis, Hemoptysis, Hematemesis etc are all Urdhwag Raktapitta. I have concluded after using Raktapitta's line of Rx
Dr. Sachin Bali: भ्रुशोष्णतीक्ष्णकट्वम्ललवणादिविदाहीभि:/
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कुपितं पित्तलै:पितं द्रवं रक्तं मूर्च्छितं/
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Dr. Vikarm Dev Singh: Can we include thalassemia in raktapitta?
Dr. Sachin Bali: Plain water can also be used for nasya in epistaxis
Dr.Amit Shukla Mumbai: Thalassemia is due to diminished Raktadhatvagani due to Kapha! Whereas Raktapitta has totally different causes, Samprapti, Rx etc
Dr. Rajendra Joshi:
3 types of Raktapitta
1.urdwaga
2.Adhoga
3.Tiryak
Dr. Akshay Jadhav: Urdhwage tarpanam purvam peya purvam adhoge.Virechanam urdhwa bhage adhoge vamanecha
Dr. Rajendra Joshi: Pratimarga Harana Chikitsa
In the treatment of Raktapitta, the doshas should be expelled from the opposite route of their course (opposite to the direction of bleeding). Following this pattern, Virechana should be administered in Urdhwaga Raktapitta (bleeding in upper passages, in upward direction) and Vamana should be administered in Adhoga Raktapitta (bleeding in lower passages, in downward direction).
After Vamana, Tarpana i.e. nourishing drinks and food should be administered in Urdhwaga Raktapitta and Yavagu, i.e. gruels (when Vayu is in control) or mamsarasa i.e. meat-soup (in vitiation of vata) should be administered in Adhoga Raktapitta.
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