Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.71

c12.71

§ 65. Thirst and Burning, Fatness and Thinness:— Thirst and burning— a usually accompanying sign of fever and other diseases, are also dealt with as independent diseases. Diseaseful thirst (*tṛṣṇā*) is that in which one does not get satisfaction in spite of continuous water-drinking, but desires to have still more water (Su). The diseaseful thirst begins with dryness of mouth, lips, palate and throat, constant desire for water, heat, burning, delirium, exhaustion and irrelevant talk. Then follow pricks in temples and in throat, bad taste in mouth, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, yellow colour of the eyes, urine and stools, cold fever, inflammation of the skin, voicelessness, salivation, pain in chest, excessive dryness, desire for cold and other signs according to the kind of origination of thirst. The case is hopeless if the patient is exhausted, unconscious and deaf and stretches out his tongue. The treatment chiefly consists of giving cold water with various additions, milk and other liquids (Car 6.22; Su 6.48; AS 3.5; 4.8; AHr 3.5; 4.6; MN 141-4; Vr 16 ).