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

  • Thomas Alexander Wise
Date:
1845
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Credit: Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine / by T.A. Wise. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (the duodenum ;) and in which the digested food is removed Pakasia, (the small intestines,) is probably from the known struc- ture of the intestines of the inferior animals. This disease is produced by drinking much water, and eating at unusual hours, when very little food is taken, and the calls of nature are resisted; when the person is sleepy or is in a passion, or is afraid, grieved, or fatigued at the time of eating; and when he dislikes the food during the time of eating. It is also produced, when the person sleeps during the day, instead of at night, or is irregular in the time of sleeping, and when at the usual time of dinner, little is eaten. By such causes the food is not digested in the proper manner. When phlegm is deranged the food tastes sweet, and is indigested ; when bile, the taste is sour, and the food in the stomach produces eructations ; and air when deranged causes the partially digested food to be dried up, with pain in the stomach. 2. <Ajtrna, Indigestion.) This disease is divided into three varieties, 4’ma Ajirna, Bistabdha Ajirna, and Bidagdha Ajirna. When digestion is good, the food is properly prepared for the use of the body, the eructations are free and without taste, and the dejections are natural; the body is light and elastic, and the person is inclined to exertion, he has a good ap- petite and the food is tasty, and is accompanied with thirst. When digestion is imperfect the person’s temper becomes bad, he is subject to anger, is fearful, and becomes covetous. The food of persons with a bad and hasty temper is not properly digested. When indigestion occurs, there is a disinclination to exertion, with giddiness ; the body is heavy, the colour of the skin bad, and there is no passage of air; such a person does not like his food, his under- standing is impaired, and his bowels are either constipated or there are copious dejections. The unfavourable symptoms of this disease are fainting, delirium, vomiting, a copious discharge of saliva from the mouth, with languor, and giddiness. A'ma Ajirna. Yn this disease the body feels heavy, with a flow of saliva and phlegm from the nose. The eyelids swell, and there are eructations of the substances eaten, some time before. In Bistabdha Ajirna, the air is deranged, and produces severe pain in the stomach, with flatulency. The stomach swells, there are no dejections, no air escapes, and the person remains stupid, with his understanding impaired, and pain over the body. - In Bidagdha Ajirna, the bile is deranged, the person has sour eructations, complains of thirst, is giddy and often dozes. He com-
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