The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.s3.56

c12.s3.56

[89] One should know that a nodule, firm like seed-stone, enlarged upwards, elevated, is a "seed-stone of the wind" (*vātāṣṭhilā*), blocking the external outlets. [90] One should say that the one accompanied by pains, blocking the winds, the faeces and the urines, developed horizontally in the abdomen is the "seed-stone in the contrary direction" (*pratyaṣṭhilā*).