Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.23

c12.23

AS 3.8.180 f.; AHr 3.8.15-30; MN 74-78). A particularly bad form of grahaṇī is saṃgrahagrahaṇī. It is characterized by noise in the intestines, inertia, feebleness and fatigue. The stools are fluid or solid, sparing or plenty, oily, with pain in the anus, undigested, sticky, noisy, a little painful, occur daily or once in 10 days, 15 days or in one month. The disease is aggravated by day and there is amelioration at night (MN 78 = Bhāv 2.1.155 = Vang 127 f.). The incurable variety of grahaṇī is known as "Scoop-wheel" (ghaṭiyantra) with numbness of both sides of the body, colic and splashing discharge as in pouring out of a bucket (Bhāv 2.1.156).