Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine / by T.A. Wise.

  • Thomas Alexander Wise
Date:
1845
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    forms Pratamaka. When produced or increased by Udaébarta, (constipation,) Ajirna, (dyspepsia,) Rajah, (or dust) and darkness. In this form cold things give relief, and the person sees imperfectly like one in darkness. This is called Sangtamaka. 5. Khudra-swdsa. It is produced by dry food and exercise. In this form there is less difficulty in breathing, and there is no pain or uneasiness. It does not prevent diglutition, nor the action of the senses, and only produces difficulty in breathing on running, &c. No other disease is produced by this one, and it is curable unless when combined with some other disease. Treatment. In Asthma mild purgatives and emetics are to be given. Old ghee prepared with myrobalan, black salt, and asafce- tida, with powder of long pepper. Ghee prepared with the five salts, as rock, black, common salt, Sabaritulla, and Sambari. In other cases the ghee is to be prepared with the decoction of Bédsaka, (Justicia ganderussa,) or ghee prepared with Turmerick, Liquorice, Sringt, Madurikd, (Anithum sowa,) Bydghrt, (Solanum jacquini, ) Shunthi, (Dry ginger,) Rasdiyana, (Sulphurate of antimony, ) Banlochana, and Mustaka, (Cyperus rotundus.) Acid fruits are recommended, with broths made of the flesh of birds which pick their food, as fowls, pigeons, &c. The heads of deer prepared with peas, and mixed with ghee are also used. The following electuary is recommended. Take of the powder of the bark of Bydghri, (Solanum jacquini, ) Sringabira, (Ginger,) Sarkara, (Sugar,) The ashes of the quills of the porcupine, and the seeds of Trikan- taka. These are to be mixed with the juice of the litter of the cow, honey, and the powder of long pepper, and administered in the usual manner. Orpver II. Cough, (Kasa.) This disease is produced, by smoke or dust entering the mouth and nostrils, by fighting, by great fatigue, by dry food, by articles of
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