Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.25

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throat, and the whole mouth cavity; in all they are 65. By derangement of doṣas, blood, flesh or fat, the lips become rough, hard, stiff, painful, yellow, red, swollen etc., there appears an eruption, or there arise maggots, pus or watery discharge. GUMS :-sītāda—scurvy, dantapuṭa—swelling at the teeth, dantaveṣṭa—inflammation of gums with bloody suppuration, saiśira—painful tumour on the teeth roots, mahāsaiśira—burning inflammation of the gums with foul breath from the mouth, vaidarbha—tumour on the tooth-roots by wound to the same, khalivardhana—supernumerary tooth, karāladanta—projecting tooth, adhimāṃsaka— tumour on wisdom tooth, dantamūlagatā nāḍī—teeth fistula. TEETH :-dālana—toothache, kṛmidantaka—caries, bhañjanaka—breaking of teeth, dantaharṣa—sensitive tooth, dantaśarkarā—tooth-tartar, kapālikā—hard, pernicious tooth tartar, śyāvadantaka— brown burnt teeth. TONGUE :- By vāta it becomes sprung up and benumbed. By pitta, hot and covered with reddish elevations. By kapha, heavy and thick and surfeited with thorny outgrowth. A severe swelling on the tongue with suppuration on the root of the tongue is called alāsa—Glossitis; a tumour like a second tongue upajihvā—Ranula. PALATE :- galaśuṇḍī—swollen tonsils; tuṇḍikerī—abscess of the tonsils; adhruṣa (abhruṣa)—a red and very painful tumour with fever; kacchapa—a painless tumour, hypertrophy of tonsils; tāluarbuda—tumour in the middle of the palate; māṃsasaṃghāta—painless tumour; puppuṭa—painless tumour of the size of a berry; tāluśoṣa—inflammation of the palate; tālupāka—abscess on the palate. On the diseases of the throat see § 64. MOUTH :- sarvasara—spread inside everywhere, pustules in the whole mouth, painful or painless, three kinds by vāta, pitta and kapha ( MN 337-51 and Dutt, Nidāna 206 ff. of. Car 6.26.170-174; Su 2.16; AS 6.25; AhR 6.21; Bhāv 2.4.135 f.; Vang 738 ff.).