Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.8

c14.8

6. On the eyelids. *Utsaṅgapiḍakā*—internally open and copper-red pustule on the lower eyelid. Cyste? *Kumbhikā*—barleycorn (Hirschberg). *Poṭhakī*—dropping, painful pustules. *Vartmaśarkarā*—eyelid gravel (Hirsch). *Arśovartman*—hard corns (Hirsch). *Śuṣkārśas*—“dry growths” (Hirsch). *Añjananāmikā*—a soft, little painful, small outgrowth. *Bahalavartman*—hard growths allover the eyelid. *Vartmabandhaka*—the swollen eyelids do not wholly cover the eye. *Kliṣṭavartman*—acute catarrh (Hirsch). *Vartmakardama*—Blenorrhoea (Hirsch). *Śyāvavartman*—eczema? *Praklinnavartman*—external painless swelling, internally severe dropping. *Aklinnavartman*—the eyelids as if pasted. *Vātahatavartman*—lagophthalmus (Helfreich). *Arbuda*—an internal growth. *Nimeṣa*—twinkling lideramp. *Śoṇitārbuda*—growth in the middle, which grows again if cut out. *Lagaṇa*—a big, hard, painless growth. *Bisavartman*—external swelling and manifold perforation of the lids, inflammation of the spleen (Hirschberg). *Kuñcana*—fall of lids (Hirsch). *Pakṣmakopa*—introversion of the eyelashes, entropion? *Pakṣmaśāta*—fall of hair on the eyelashes with burning of the lids (Hirsch). (MN 366-403; Cf. Car 6.26.102 f.; Su 6.1-7; AS 6.11-20; AHr 6.8-16; Vang 783 ff.; Bhāv 2.4). On *kukūṇaka* of children see § 50.