The Compendium of Caraka 8.2.22

8.2.22

The rest, however, are fit; especially those with stiffness of the head, teeth, and nape; lockjaw; chronic coryza; uvulitis; tonsillitis; corneal opacity; timira; diseases of the eyelids; melasma; epiglottitis; hemicrania; diseases of the neck, shoulder, scapula, mouth, nose, ears, eyes, cranium, and head; facial paralysis; apatantraka; apatānaka; goitre; toothache, hypersensitivity, and looseness; red streaks in the eyes; tumors; hoarseness of voice; speech arrest; stammering; stertorous breathing; and other disorders of vāta, etc., located above the clavicles that are fully matured. In these, head evacuation is said to be the foremost, for having penetrated into the supreme organ, it draws out entirely the disease-causing doṣa adhering there, like an internal stalk from muñja grass.