Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.34

c12.34

By *amlapitta* according to Dutt (*nidāna* 181 note), dyspepsia with vomiting or diarrhoea, also blood-spitting, ( perhaps by cancer ), heat-burning and catarrh of the stomach are indicated. The older pathology ( cf. AHr 3.5.42 ) scarcely knows this disease; according to MN 307-9 the physician knows its existence by indigestion, giddiness, nausea, pungent or sour eructation, heaviness, burning in the chest and throat and loss of appetite. If it goes downwards, it rouses thirst, heat, loss of consciousness, dizziness, nausea, jaundice etc. If it goes upwards, there is vomiting, in which the vomit is green, yellow, blue, black, reddish or blood-coloured, very sour, phlegmatic etc. The physician should first give an emetic, then a mild purgative, which are followed by smearing with oil and a clyster ( Vr 53.1 = Cakra 304, cf. Vang 681-688 ).