Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.26

c14.26

For diseases of lips special ointments should be applied, so also gargling remedies and other mouth remedies, leeches, local warmth etc.; for affection of gums blood-letting as well as gargling remedies, application of powder to the gums, plaster, cutting off of corrupted flesh on the tooth-root and extracting the painful and supernumerary teeth irrespective of whether they are loose or firm, branding etc. For toothache gargling with lukewarm water, decoctions, warming, fumigation, nasal remedies are recommended; tooth-tartar is to be removed without injuring the tooth-root; loose teeth are to be extracted. In diseases of teeth one should not take sour fruit, cold water, dry or very hard things, also should not chew nauseous sticks for cleansing the teeth. For diseases of the tongue cauterizing, water-gargling, scarification, fumigation, nasal remedies are to be applied. Swollen tonsils should be extracted out and one should cut out a piece of them. Similar tumours on the palate should be operated or scarified; for inflammation of and abscess on the palate, gargling with water is particularly prescribed. For the affections of the whole mouth salt-powder, water, gargling, nasal remedies and the like are indicated (Car 6.26.175-200; Su 4.22; AS 6.26; AHr 6.22; Vr 58; Bhāv; Vang l. c.).