The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.s3.51

c12.s3.51

[79] The wind associated with bile and blood provokes inflammation in the feet and specially following a walk: it is called “inflammation of the feet” (pādadāha, acrodyny). [80] The one whose feet have horripilation and are as if asleep⁴, it should be known that he has the horripilation of the feet (pādaharṣa) born of the excitation of the phlegm and of the wind. [81] The wind which, having its seat in the region of the shoulder, after having dried up the articulation⁵ and bent the tendons, stays there, engenders the “arm below” (avabāhuka). [82] Where the wind stays filling the vectorial canal of speech⁶, whether pure or associated with phlegm, deafness (bādhirya), is produced because of it. [83] The one in whom the wind provokes a shooting pain in the ears as if cutting the jaws, temples, head and the neck, he is said to have the "shooting pain of the ears" (*karṇaśūla*). [84] The wind with phlegm having filled the vectorial canals of speech, renders men inactive, dumb, speaking through the nose, or makes them stammerers. [85] The suffering that goes downwards, arriving in the receptacles of the faeces and of the urines, as if cutting the rectum and the genital organs, is known as the "quiver"¹ (*tūnī*). [86] The suffering which, arrived in the rectum and in the genital organs, winding the wrong way, occurs with paroxysms in the receptacle of the cooked (in the intestines) is called "contrary quiver" (*pratitūnī*). [87] The abdomen with rumbling, the seat of extremely violent pains, strongly swollen: one should know that to be "distension" (*ādhmāna*), terrible due to the stoppage of the wind. [88] When the side and the heart are untrammeled and when it reaches the receptacle of the undigested (stomach) it should be known as the "contrary distension", where the wind is filled with phlegm.