Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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CHA RAKA -SAMHITA.
The ufgings also in respect of eructations, of yawns, of hunger and of thirst, of tears, of sleep, and of heavy breathing induced by toil (should not to be suppressed). Listen now to me as I discourse (to you) on the topic of treating the several diseases that are generated of the person who suppresses the urgings of these when they appear in pronounced forms.3
By suppressing the call of urine, inflammation sets in of the bladder and the membrum virile. The other consequen¬ ces are strangury or painful micturition, headache, bending forward at the time of micturition, inflammation of the pubic and iliac regions, and epistasis or suppression of urine.*4
When retention of urine takes place, (the inducing of) perspi¬ ration, immersion (of the patient) in cool water, rubbing the body with oil, (the use of) clarified butter as snuff, and the three processes of evacuation, are the remedies that should be adoptedf6
By suppressing (the call for) stools, pain in the abdomen, obstruction of the wind, suppression of stools, pain in the calf of the leg, and flatulence, are induced.6
Perspiration, the rubbing of the body with oil, immersion in cool water, (insertion of the different kinds of) sticks, J the evacuating processes, eating and drinking, and (the use of) such medicines as facilitate the free action of the wind, are beneficial in disorders arising from the obstruction of the wind (induced by suppressing the call for stools).7 t ‘ Avapidaka ’ is the use or application of a medicine, oily or of any other kind, for purging the cerebrum. The three kinds of evacuation here referred to are (i) eva¬ cuation by the use of purgatives, (2) that by the use of emetics, and (3) by the use of errhines. — T.
* ‘Vinama is bending of the form in pain (at the time of micturition). ‘Vankhana’ is inflammation of the pubic and iliac regions. ‘Anaha’ is the total suppression of urine, or epistasis. — T.
+ The sticks are inserted into the anal canal for inducing purging. They are pre¬ pared of diverse ingredients. — T.
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By obstructing the emission of the vital seed, pain in the membrum virile and the testes, langour of the body, pain in the heart, and retention of urine also, are induced.8
In disorders caused by obstructing the emission of the vital seed, rubbing the body with oil, immersion of the body in cool water, wines, the meat of fowl, rice, enemata prepared with milk, and sexual congress, are laid down as remedies for adoption.®
By suppressing the passage of the wind (through the anal canal), obstruction of the wind, retention of urine and of stools, flatulence, langour of body, and other disorders in the stomach (born of wind), are induced.10
In such diseases the use of oil and ghee, the inducing of perspiration, the application of the sticks, eating and drinking, and the use of enemata, have been laid down as remedies for restoring the free action of the wind.11
By suppressing phlegmatic evacuations, itching of the body, urticaria evanida, loss of appetite, brown eruptions on the face, inflammations, anaemia, fever, leucoderma, hiccup, and erisypelas, are the disorders that are engendered.*12
In such diseases, vomiting (by artificial means) after eating, smoking, fasts, blood-letting, the use of dry food and drink, physi¬ cal exercise, and purging, are desirable.18
By suppressing sneezing, wry neck, headache, facial paralysis hemicrania, and weakness of the senses, are induced.14
In such amongst these disorders that affect those parts of the body that are above the collar bone, the rubbing of oil, perspiration, smoking, snuffs, the use of such food as destroys disorders of the wind, and drinking clarified butter after a full meal, are bene¬ ficial.-]*16 t ‘ Adyam ’ is food of any kind. 1 Vataghnamadyam ’ is light, digestible food.— i'.
* The disease called ‘ Pandu ’ is of many varieties. Generally, a paleness over¬ spreads the skin, due to bloodlessness. There is ancemia at the bottom. One variety of 1 Pandu ’ is called Jaundice ; another is called Chlorosis.— I1.
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Hiccup, consumption, loss of appetite, paralysis agitaris, heart' diseases, and accumulation of phlegm in the chest, are induced by suppressing the tendency to vomit. In such disorders the remedies are the same that are laid down for hiccup,1®
Bending of the body, convulsions, contractions (of muscles), toss of the sense of touch, acute sensation of cold, and paralysis agitans, arise from suppressing tendencies to yawn. All those remedies that are laid down for destroying disorders of the wind are beneficial in these.1 7
By suppressing the call of hunger, leanness, weakness, loss of color, langour, loss of appetite, and delirium are induced. The remedy in such disorders is light and lukewarm food.18
By suppressing the call of thirst, the throat and the mouth are parched, and deafness, faintness, asthma, and pain in the heart, are induced. The remedy in these disorders is the use of cool oils and drinks which invigorate the blood.10
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