Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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They are born of the three faults, viz., wind, bile, and phlegm ; that is, of one, or of two of these, or of all the three. The causes that provoke them are also three, viz., I. contact with such objects of sense as are nnassimilable or unsuitable, or hostile i. e. fault of judg¬ ment, and 3. Parinama, i. e., time, in the sense of both the season and age or years. — T.
CHARAKA-SAMHiTA.
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If treated wrongly, these become as provoked as snakes of violent poison when struck. 8
In the Lesson on Diseases in Brief (called Ashtodariya in the Division called Sutrasthana), each of these diseases has been declared to be of five varieties.
Hear now what their originating causes are as also their symp¬ toms and the medicines that are prescribable. 9
By dust, by smoke, and by wind (entering the mouth and the nostrils), through residence (or stay) in cold places, and indulgence in (cold) water, through (undue), indulgence in physical exercises and sexual congress, through walking long distances, as also through indulgence in food that is dry and that consists of hostile ingredients, through vitiation (in the stomach) of the juice of the food that is taken, through suppression of urine, through dryness 'of the body), and through' excess of abstinence from oily food and drink, through weak¬ ness, through wounds inflicted on vital parts of the body, exposure to pairs opposites (such as heat and cold, hardness and softness of beds and clothes, fasts and excessive indulgence in food and drink, &c.\ excessive administration of purgatives and other correctives, from diarrhoea, fever, vomiting, catarrh in the nose, wounds, and waste (of ‘dhStus’), from blood-bile, flatulence of the stomach, cholera, and tympanites, from chlorosis, and from poison introduced into the system, these diseases [viz., hiccup and asthma; spring up.
From also the following causes, viz., indulgence in beans, in seeds of Mfisha ( Pkaseolus radiatus ), sesame paste, or sesame oil, from indulgence in cakes (of boiled rice), the esculent roots of different varieties of Nymphcea lotus, food that causes flatulence or burning sensation (of the chest or the whole body), of that is heavy, the meat pf aquatic animals or animals that live in marshy regions, curds, and raw milk ;
From indulgence in food that owing to its emollient qualities retains the secretions and causes heaviness of the body, or food that increases the phlegm,
From wounds on the throat and the chest, and from constipation of the bowels and stoppage of urine (or difficulty of micturition), the two diseases mentioned {viz., hiccup and asthma) spring i°-i5
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CHA R AKA- SAM HIT A.
The wind from the causes mentioned above', entering the ducts that bear the vital breath called Prana, becomes provoked. Repair¬ ing to the chest, it then causes the phlegm to rise upward, and produces hiccup and asthma, each of which is of five varieties. These diseases are terrible and bring on the destruction of lifeListen, I shall now state the incubatory symptoms of both these diseases.
Heaviness of the throat as also of the chest, the presence of an astringent taste in the mouth, and a rumbling noise in the intestines, — these are the incubatory symptoms of. Hiccup. i8
Stoppage of urine, pains in the flanks, sense of oppression on the chest, abnormal course of the vital breath called Prana, — these are the incubatory symptoms of Asthma. 19
The wind, uniting with the phlegm, obstructs the ducts that bear the ‘prana,’ water, as also food, and produces hiccup .
Listen now to the symptoms, laid down separately, of the several varieties of hiccup. 20
MAHA-HIKKA.
Of one whose flesh, strength, vital breath, and energy, have become weakened ^through disease or other causes), the wind, with the phlegm, suddenly seizing the throat, causes violent and continunuous hiccup accompanied with loud noise.
This hiccup may be single, or double, or treble in respect of the sound uttered.
Obstructing the ducts of the vital breath, the vital parts of the body (such of the heart, &c.\ as also the heat of the body, the wind with the phlegm takes away consciousness, and generates stupefac¬ tion of the entire body. 2I-22
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