Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.33

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cessation or retention of natural excretions and necessities like winds, faeces, urine, sperm, watering from the eyes, sneezing, eructation, vomiting, sperm, hunger and thirst etc. ( Car 6.26.3-8; Su 6.55; MN 199-201; Vang 464-471; Bhāv 2.3.12-18 ). All these kinds of *udāvarta* are considered as causes of diseases. Thus the suppression of stools leads to flatulence, *śūla*, pain in the body, constipation, ascending of the wind or faecal vomiting. Closely connected or identical with this is the condition of *ānāha*. Accompanying signs in undigested faeces are : thirst, cold, heat in the head, pain in the belly, heaviness, a feeling of fullness in the chest, ceasing of eructation. If the excrements are digested, there follow stiffness in the hips and the back, constipation and retention of urine, colic, loss of consciousness, faecal vomiting and the signs of *alasaka* (see above). The suppression of wind going out of the anus leads, according to MN, Vang, Bhāv. to vāta-diseases, according to Su 6.55.7 f. to still worse results like colic, difficult breathing, headache, cough and sneezing, excretion of phlegm and bile and even faecal vomiting. The constipation is to be cured with suppository, enemata, purgative pills, powders and decoctions in ghee, also with perspiring remedies, smearings, baths, purging food etc. ( Car; Su; Vang; Bhāv; l. c.; Vr 28 f.; Cakra 185-188 ).