An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)
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130 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [Chap. XXIV.
madltu and (red) Chandana and with a quantity of milk ten times its own weight. All types of nasal catarrh, yield to the curative efficacy of this medicated Ghrita, if used as an errhine (Nasya). Oils medicated with the drugs remedial to the specific deranged Dosha involved in each case under treatment should also be prescribed. 25-26.
All the foregoing preparations should be surcharged with the urine and bile of a cow and used in cases due to the existence of local parasites , and vermifuges ( e . g., drugs of the Surasidi group) should be administered as a palliative measure.* 27,
Thus ends the twenty-fourth chapter of the U ttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhita which deals with the (symptoms and) medical treatment of Pratis'ydya.
* In places of “gTq^TT^^ , Chakradatta reads * *•> as an
errhine. He also reads *•*•> pasted with the urine (of a cow), and thus does not read the bile of a cow (fqff) in the text. Vrinda, however, reads u ^^^PTTf?r ,, in place of which means that vermifuges should be used for washing purposes.
CHAPTER XXV.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the symptoms of diseases peculiar to the region of the head (^iro-roga-ViJnsCniya). x.
Classification ; — Diseases which are peculiar to the region of the head number eleven in all, viz., the four kinds respectively due to the action of the deranged VAyu, Pitta, Kapha, and their combination, as well as those which are respectively incidental to any bodily waste (Kshayaja), or to the vitiated condition of the blood (Raktaja), or to the existence of parasites (Krimija), the remaining four being known as SuryAvarta, AnantavAta, ArdhAvabhedaka and Samkhaka. 'The symptoms of these eleven kinds of head-diseases are given below. 2.
Symptomsof Dosha-origined types :
‘—A fit of violent headache without any apparent cause and which becomes worse in the night and is relieved by pressure or by being bandaged or by an application of fomentation round the head, should be ascribed to the action of the deranged Vatyu, and is known as the Vfittaja-Siroroga. A violent burning and aching pain in the . head, in which the scalp seems to have been strewn over with bits of live charcoal, accompanied by a sense of scorching vapour being emitted from the nostrils, and which ameliorates in the night or on the application of cold, should be ascribed to the action of the deranged Pitta, and is known as the PittajaSiroroga. A fit of headache in which the head (palate) and the throat* seem to be covered with a coat of sticky adopted by Mldhava. There seems to be no difference in the meaning s the word fSrc^(head) may include both the palate and the throat.
* In, place of some reatl This reading is
*32 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [Chap. XXV.
mucus, and feel cold and heavy, and cannot be turned about, and the face and the eyes look swollen or flabby, should be attributed to the action of the deranged bodily Kapha, and is called the Kaphaja-Skroroga. A case marked by the concerted action of all the three preceding Doshas exhibits all the symptoms peculiar to all of them, and is known as the Tr i-doshaja-Siroroga. 2-6.
Symptoms of Raktaja, Kshayaja and Krimija types of $iro-roga : — A case of headache due to the vitiated condition of the local blood manifests all the symptoms of the Pittaja type, and the head becomes incapable of (bearing) the least touch. This is known as the Raktaja-Siroroga. A case of headache incidental to the waste of the local VasA (fat) or Kapha* is marked by an intolerable pain (Abhi-tipa) in the head which is aggravated by the application of fomentation, fumigation, errhine, emetic and blood-letting. This is known as the Kshayaja-Siroroga. The disease of the head in which a pricking and tingling pain is felt inside the head as if being stung, (by some poisonous insect), and which is accompanied by a watery discharge mixed with blood (D. R. pus) from the nose, should be attributed to the existence of local parasites. This disease is a dangerous one and is known as the Krimija (Parasitic) Siro-roga. 7-9.
Symptoms of Suryavarta £iroroga : — The disease of the head in which a severe pain is felt in the eye and the eyebrow just at sunrise, and
* Dallana here comments that the term ‘‘VaSsC” means all the fatty substances in the body, e. the brain substance, Medas, semen, Majjan, etc. There is a variant which is not recognised by Gayi. That reading is (*• by the waste) of blood, Vasa
Kapha and Vrfyu. This, however, seems to be the better reading.
Chap. XXV. ]
UTTARA-lANTRAM.
which goes on growing worse with the progress of the day and begins to abate only when that great luminary begins to set in the western sky, is called Suryivarta. It (generally) abates on the use of cold articles but sometimes on that of warm things as well. It is ascribed to the concerted action of the three Doshas. io.
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