The caustics are superior to the sharp instruments and their substitutes because of their power to
:
- Alleviate all the three dosas, and
- Moreover they can be used for some special procedures.
They are composite of many drugs. Being white in colour it is placid.
Even though it is placid, it is capable of carrying out
:
- Digestion and
- Splitting of lesion.
It is made of drugs having :
- heating effect;
- cauterisation;
- it is pungent (in taste);
- hot (in potency);
- sharp (in properties);
- digestive and
- liquefier of the granulation tissues.
When used externally on ulcers it has :
- cleansing,
- healing,
- adsorbent,
- styptic
- scraping properties.
When used internally it is destroyer of :
- worms,
- ama dosa ,
- kapha
- skin diseases
- poisons
- obesity,
- also a destroyer of sexual potency after prolonged administration.
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Stages of Surgery
