Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.57

c12.57

All these disenseful conditions can become incurable and can lead to death. Thus pāṇḍuroga is incurable after a long standing, if the skin is rough, the patient sees everything yellow, the digestion is hampered and there is scanty and phlegmatic yellowish diarrhoea, the teeth, nails and eyes are pale, the patient has swelling in the extremities and is thin in the middle, or if the anus, penis and the testicles are swollen, if he is senseless, has simultaneous diarrhoea and fever etc. For the curable forms there have been prescribed numerous recipes for purging, vomiting etc. among which mention may be made of the different iron preparations for the sake of comparison with the European treatment of chlorosis (Car 6.16; Su 6.44; AS 3.13; 4.18; AHr 3.13; 4.16; MN 100-106; Vr 8). On an interesting sympathy-cure for jaundice wherein the same is transferred to a bird tied to the bed of the patient, see Bloomfield, SBE 42, 264, 566, Kausika sūtra 26.18 (Caland).