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Ashtangasamgraha 20.12

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20.12

Among them, a severe heat spreading all over the body is dāha (burning sensation).

Oṣa is [a burning sensation] accompanied by sweating and restlessness.

Ploṣa is a localized burning sensation, devoid of sweating, as if from the flame of a fire.

Dava is a burning sensation in the mouth, lips, and palate.

Davathu is a burning sensation in the eyes and other sense organs.

Vidāha is a diverse burning heat in the hands, feet, and the roots of the shoulders.

Antardāha is a burning sensation in the visceral cavity.

Dhūmaka is a sensation of smoking in the head, neck, throat, and palate.

Amlaka is an eructation accompanied by internal burning and pain in the cardiac region.

Kleda of blood consists of blackness, foul odor, and thinness.

And [kleda] of flesh consists of blackness and foul odor.

Carmakotha is thickening of the outer skin.

Tṛpti is an absence of desire for food due to heaviness of the visceral cavity.

Others, however, say that lack of pleasure in food, which is like satiation, is tṛpti [or] arocaka (anorexia).

Tandrā (drowsiness) is the non-perception of sense objects, as if of one overcome by sleep.

Staimitya (numbness/stiffness), however, is read by others as pramīlaka.

Upalepa is [a sensation] as if smeared.

An excess of that is praticaya, an over-filling.

Śaitya (chilliness) is extreme sluggishness of the digestive fire.

Udarda is excessive exudation (abhiṣyanda) of the chest.

According to some, udarda is cold with trembling.

Others, however, say:

Or having incised it with a knife, one should cleanse it thoroughly.

Or having repeatedly removed the scorched blood, one should foment it again and again.

In this manner, one should proceed alternately against raktapitta and against vāta and śleṣman.

For one whose head has been purged, an unctuous enema with milk and ghee, and smoking [are prescribed].

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