Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c15.13

c15.13

of emptiness in the heart. There are six kinds of unmāda. By vāta there is laughing without reason, crying, singing, dancing, jesticulating without reason, foam from the mouth, constant walking, talkativeness, adorning oneself with unsuitable things, desire to eat and nausea after eating, thinness, the skin is rough and red-brown, after digestion the signs are worse. By pitta there is especially violence, violent possession, desire to attack, predilection for nakedness and for shade and bath and the like. By kapha there is loss of intelligence and memory, loss of appetite, vomiting, salivation, taciturnity, predilection for loneliness, sleepiness, uncleanliness etc. By the three doṣas the condition is incurable. By painful excitation e. g., by the loss of property or beloved wife there is melancholia with unintentional weeping, lamenting and the like, or the patient sings, laughs, speaks pell-mell and the like. By poison the eyes become red, the face red-brown, there is feebleness and senselessness. Unmāda is fatal if the lunatic looks towards the ground, or in the height, becomes thin, void of strength and cannot sleep. Curable lunatics should be given medicines, especially decoctions with oil and ghee, purgative and emetic, enemeta, ointment, nasal remedy, fumigation, or blood should be let out. Otherwise the patient should be thrown in a well without water and let to remain hungry there, or he should be tied with his face upwards in the Sun, or he should be branded with glowing iron, or he should be scalded with boiling oil or water, or should be chastised with lashes and then should be thrown in a grove, or should be left in a dark and empty place or should be frightened with serpents whose poison-tooth is extracted, or with tamed lions or elephants, or the death of a relative should be announced to him, or the servants of the king should take him in open air and threaten him with death. Along with these violent remedies, it is also recommended to cheer the lunatic with friendly talk ( Car 6.9; Su 6.62; AS 6.9; AHr 6.6; MN 160-4; Bhāv 2.2; Vang 326 ff.; Vṛ 20 )