Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

He becomes afflicted also with pains in all the bone-joints, fever, difficulty of breathing (or asthma), thirst,, and hoarseness of voice.

Verily, through the violence of this cough that is born of sores (in the lungs), one coos like a pigeon. 2°-22

Through eating food consisting of inharmonious ingredients or food that is unassimilable, through excessive indulgence in sexual congress, through suppression of urgings (that have become pro¬ nounced) of nature, of men who (from necessity) eat the food they abominate, or who indulge in grief, the three faults {viz., wind, bile, and phlegm), rendering the digestive fire vitiated, become provoked and generate cough born of waste. Such cough wastes the body and leads to dissolution.

One afflicted with such cough expectorates greenish blood, and phlegm resembling pus. 23-?4

While coughing, he regards his heart as if displaced from its position.

Without any ostensible reason he suddenly feels afflicted with iieat, or cold.

He eats copiously but feels weak and becomes emaciated. 25

His face becomes cheerful and flushed.

His aspect becomes agreeable, and his eyes become beautiful.

His palms and soles become smooth and -bright.

He feels a disgust for many things and becomes displeased with other peoples’ good luck. 26

He becomes afflicted with fever of a mixed character (that is, fever characterised by excitement of all the faults).

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.

He feels pains in his sides. His Schneiderian membrane becomes iuflamed. He feels a disgust for food.

His stools consist df disjointed and hard scybalae.

Without any ostensible cause his voice becomes hoarse. 27

Even these are the symptoms of this variety of Cough (i. e., waste-born).

It destroys the bodies (/. e., kills) of those that become emaciated.

Of men possessed of strength, this Cough is curable.

The Cough, again, that is born of sores, of men possessed of strength, is suppressible.* 28

If these two varieties of cough be new, and if the four requisites of treatment (viz., physician, nurse, drugs, and patient) be possessed of the stated qualifications, then they may sometimes be cured.

Of persons that are old in years, all varieties of cough born of decrepitude, are suppressible.f 29

The first three varieties of Cough (viz., that born of wind, that of bile, and that of phlegm), which are curable, should be treated (with proper medicines). m

Those, again, that are suppressible (viz., that born of sores and that of waste, when they afflict persons possessed of strength) should be sought to be suppressed by proper regimen, (including medicines).]:

* Diseases, as regards curability or otherwise, are of three kinds, viz., curable, incurable, and suppressible. What is stated here is that waste-born cough destroys those that are weak. Such cough, however, of those that are strong, is not so. On the other hand, it is curable. Then, sore-born cough, Of those that are strong, is only suppressible.

The last line may also mean that waste-born cough of men that are strong is curable or suppressible. The same may be said of sore-born cough when it seizes a strong man. — T.

t What is said in this verse is this : the two varieties of cough, viz., that born of waste and that born of sores, kill the patients if they happen to be weak and emaciated, but are curable or suppressible if the patients are strong.

Generally speaking, those varieties are sometimes curable, even if the patients be weak and emaciated, if treatment is taken up when they are new, and if the four requisites of treatment happen to possess the stated qualifications, that is, if the physician be skilful, the nurse careful, the drugs good, and the patient obedient.' — T.

£ Among the varieties that are suppressible, is named ‘Jar5-kSsha,’ i. (., the cough which old men get in consequence of their decrepitude. — T.

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Listen, after this, to the treatment that is curative of dough. 3°

Of one who has become dry (that is, whose body is no longer oily), wind-born cough should be, at the outset, treated with (medicated) oils as also with medicated ghees., enemata, cooling gruels, milk, soups of pulses, and meat-juices. 31

The physician possessed of intelligence should treat such patients judiciously with also such oils and ghees as have been cooked with drugs that are destructive of wind, with fumigation, with different kinds of linctus, with ointments for the rubbing the body with, with medicated waters that are sprinkled over the body, and with fumi¬ gation with oily substances. 32

He should treat one whose stools and wind have become consti¬ pated, with enemata.

One whose stools have become dry and whose wind has taken an upward course, should' be treated with ghees administered after meals.

That wind, however, which is accompanied by (excited) bile and (excited) phlegm, should be conquered by oily purgatives. 33 KANTAKARI GHRITA.

Taking 30 palas from Kantakari ( Solatium Xanthocarpuin) and the same measure from Guduchi ( Tinospora cordifolia ), boil them for their decoction. (Eight seers of water are taken, and the same is boiled down to 2 seers).