Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

[The symptoms of bile-born vomiting are the following :]

Afflicted with swoons, thirst, dryness of the mouth, burning of the

* ‘Udirna-vegam’ implies ‘with excited force of intensity.’ What is stated here is that in consequence of indulgence in the kinds of food mentioned, the force or intensity of the bile is excited ; in other words, it is provoked.— T.

CHAR A KA-SA MU IT A.

1 573 head, the palate, and the eyes, sight of darkness, and vertigo, one suffering from bile-born vomiting, ejects matter that is billious, yellow, exceedingly hot, bitter in taste, or smoky in colour accom¬ panied with a burning sensation (in the throat). i°

[The ‘Nidana’ is then set set forth of phlegm-born vomiting] :

Through indulgence in food that is exceedingly oily, or exceed¬ ingly heavy, or raw, or capable of causing a buring sensation in the stomach, or through excessive slumber and the like causes, the phlegm, becoming exceedingly aggravated, covering the chest, the head, the vital region (vie., the region about the heart), and the juice¬ bearing ducts, causes vomiting. 11

In phlegm-born vomiting, one presents such symptoms as langour, sweetness of taste in the mouth, expectoration of phlegmonous matter, a feeling of satiety,* sleep, disgust for food, and heaviness of the body.

The matter he ejects is oily, thick, sweet in taste, phlegmonous, and white in colour.

Horripilation sets in while he ejects ; the pain also that he feels is not much. 12

[Th.e ‘Nidana’ is set forth of vomiting generated by the simulta¬ neous excitement of the three faults].

"Through vitiation of the food in the stomach and inharmonious condition of season, the three faults of one who continuously takes food and drink of all sorts of tastes (that are beneficial and baneful, without making any distinction), becoming excited, generate vomiting born of the three faults. f

The following are the symptoms of vomiting born of the three faults.

‘£ula’ pains, indigestion, disgust for food, a burning sensation1, thirst, asthmatic breathing, and swoons, all in excess, characterise

* The use of ‘Santosha,’ in the sense of satiety, is rare.— T.

•j- The final statement is a syntactical pleonasm. ‘Samagnatah’ is explained as ‘Samaganam kurvatah.’ By ‘Samagana’ is meant the taking of ‘pathySpathyam ekatram,’ i. e., •ating beneficial food and food that is baneful together.

CHA R A KA - SA M'HITA.

the continuous vomiting born of three faults, of persons that eject matter which is saline, sour, thick, hot, and blue or red in colour. 14

[What is stated here is that ‘(^ula’ pains, &c., are the symptoms presented of vomiting born of the excitement of the three faults together. The character, again, of the ejected matter is of the kind stated. The language of Driclhavala is not so neat as that of Charaka.]

When the wind, obstructing the ducts which bear the stools, the sweat, the urine, and water, courses upwards, then bearing up from his stomach the accumulated faults of the person in whom the three faults have been excited, it causes the continuous ejection, with great force, of those viatited faults which resemble stools and urine in smell and colour, the ejection being accompanied by thirst, hard breathing, hiccup, and pain.

Afflicted with such vomiting, the person soon meets with des¬ truction. 15-16

[The language of these two verses is very slovenly. The construc¬ tion is, — ‘Yada vitswedamutravahani grotangsi samrudhya, vayuh urddham eti, tada (sa vSyu) utsannadoshasya narasya koshthat tarn achitam dosham samuddhyuya, (tarn) dushtam, vinmutrayoh .

yutam, ativegat prachcchardayet.’

[By ‘utsannadosha’ here is meant ‘one in whom the (three) faults have been excited].’

Instead of ‘ativegat’ the accusative or the instrumental would*have been better.

The reading, ‘bhayardditah’ in the Calcutta and the Bombay •editions is incorrect. It should be ‘taySrdditah.’]

[The ‘nidsna’ is now set forth of that vomiting which is born of contact with abominable objects of sense].

That vomiting of an excited person which arises from smelling or •eating or seeing objects that are abominable, unbearable, impure, foetid, unclean, disgusting, and disagreeable, is regarded as ‘born of contact with abominable objects of sense.’f 17

‘Prasaktam’ is ‘nirantaram,’ that is continuously or habitually. — T.

* ‘Dishta’ is abominable ; ‘Pratipa’ is explained as something that one can not bear or ■endure ; ‘Manoghna’ is something that wounds the mind ; hence, disagreeable ; ‘Taptamana’ •is one whose mind has been heated, i. e., excited. — T.

'CHAR A KA-SA MHITA.

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That vomiting of a weakened person which is continuous and •copious, accompanied by supervening ailments, consisting of blood and pus, and of variegated aspect (like the hues on the plumes of a peacock), should be pronounced to be incurable.

That vomiting, however, which is unaccompanied by supervening ailments, is regarded as curable and should, therefore, be taken up for treatment. 18