Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.2

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The later medical works attribute the usual children's diseases ( bālaroga, bālāmaya ) readily to the influence of the mother's milk. Thus except to the diseases of the suckling baby mentioned in § 43 the harmful effect of the mother's milk is divided also according to the principle of tridoṣas. Defective milk causes an inflammation of the eyelids ( kukūṇaka—Suppuration of the membrane of the new-born-Hirschberg ) in which the eye itches and frequently drops water and the child rubs the forehead, eye-borders and the nose, cannot look in the Sun, is not able to open the eyelids. If the child drinks milk of a pregnant mother, it suffers from cough, indigestion, vomiting, faintness, weakness, nausea, giddiness, and swelling of intestines. This is called pārigarbhika or paribhava ( MN 425; AS 2.1.173; Vang 889 ).