Chapter 6.22: Thirst Disorders Treatment (Trishna Chikitsa / तृष्णाचिकित्सा)

Trishna and pipasa are two commonly used words denoting desire for water, the difference between the two is, trishna is pathological and pipasa is physiological. Generally, desire for water is physiological process to maintain fluid balance but if dosha are vitiated then they can lead to excessive thirst and can produce trishna, a disease in which person constantly craves for the water. Beside independent disease, trishna or thirst is also seen as prodromal symptom, clinical feature, complication, poor prognostic sign etc. in various clinical conditions. In this chapter, etiological factors, premonitory symptoms, pathogenesis, clinical features and complications of trishna as a disease are discussed.

Source: Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan by Vagbhata

id="Summary">Summary Here is the recapitulatory verse- How the thermal factors and vata are the two causative factors for five kinds of trishna, their separate characteristics, the incurable condition and the method of remedy have all been described.[63] Thus, in the section of therapeutics in the treatise complied by Agnivesha and revised by Charak, the twenty second chapter entitled Trishna Chikitsa not being available, annotated by Charak and redacted by Dridhabala, is completed.[22]