[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [The Compendium of Caraka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › 3.7.10\_2 # The Compendium of Caraka 3.7.10\_2 Carakasaṃhitā 3.7.10\_2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.7.10\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7.10_2) teṣāṃ samutthānaṃ-mṛjāvarjanaṃ; sthānaṃ---keśaśmaśrulomapakṣmavāsāṃsi; saṃsthānam-aṇavastilākṛtayo bahupādāśca; varṇa-kṛṣṇaḥ, śuklaśca; nāmāni-yūkāḥ, pipīlikāśca; prabhāvaḥ-kaṇḍūjananaṃ, koṭhapiḍakābhinirvartanaṃ ca; cikitsitaṃ tu khalveṣāmapakarṣaṇaṃ, malopaghātaḥ, malakarāṇāṃ ca bhāvānāmanupasevanamiti// > "Their origin is the neglect of personal cleanliness; location: the hair of the head, beard, body hair, eyelashes, and clothes; form: minute, shaped like sesame seeds, and having many feet; color: black and white; names: lice (yūkā) and nits (pipīlikā); effect: producing itching and giving rise to urticarial rashes and boils. Their treatment, however, is extraction, destruction of excreta, and non-use of factors that generate excreta." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.7.10\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7.10_1) - [Next: 3.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7.11) - [Up: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.3.7.10_2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7.10_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.3.7.10_2) · Pramāṇa