Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.4

c12.4

The derangements of doṣas are also responsible for the origination of many children's diseases. Thus the disease of the palate tālu-kaṇṭaka is caused by the derangement of kapha in the flesh of the palate (soft palate). The symptoms are an (external) sinking in of the palate region, (internal) sinking of the palate, dislike of mother's breast, pain in swallowing, diarrhoea, thirst, pain in the eyes, throat and the mouth, inability to hold the neck (head) upwards and vomiting. From the derangement of three doṣas is caused a difficult form of erysipelas (visarpa), which is called mahāpadma. In general, all diseases of the grown-up, right from fever, particularly the minor diseases (kṣudraroga, cf. § 67, MN 426; Vang 889; Bhāv 2.4.208) attack the children also.