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A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.193.3

A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.193.3

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v1.c24.193.3

555 the symptoms of galagaṇḍa due to vāta (21.54),⁵⁵⁶ kapha (21.55)⁵⁵⁷ and fatty tissue (21.56);⁵⁵⁸ the symptoms of svarahan, due to vāta (21.57);⁵⁵⁹ the symptoms of mukhapāka, due to vāta (21.58–59),⁵⁶⁰ and of ūrdhvaguda (21.60);⁵⁶¹ the symptoms of mukhapāka due to pitta (21.61),⁵⁶² blood (21.61d),⁵⁶³ and kapha (21.62ab);⁵⁶⁴ when mukhapāka due to kapha spreads to the interior of the cheeks, a particular kind of arbuda appears (21.62cd–63ab); the symptoms of mukhapāka arising from all the doṣas, together with blood (21.63cd); the same agents lead to pūyāsyatā in those who have an aversion to brushing their teeth (21.64ab); thus have been described the seventy-five diseases of the lips, cheeks, teeth, roots of the teeth, tongue, palate, throat, and the whole oral cavity;⁵⁶⁵ their numbers are eleven,⁵⁶⁶ one,⁵⁶⁷ ten,⁵⁶⁸ thirteen,⁵⁶⁹ six,⁵⁷⁰ eight,⁵⁷¹ eighteen,⁵⁷² and eight⁵⁷³ respectively (21.64cd–66ab); incurable among them are: karāla, oṣṭha(kopa) due to muscular tissue and to blood, the types of arbuda, with the exception of that due to jala, kacchapa, tālupiṭikā, galaugha, mahāsuṣira, svaraghna, ūrdhvaguda, śyāva(danta), śataghnī, valaya, alasa, nāḍī arising from all the doṣas, oṣṭhakopa arising from all the doṣas, rohiṇī due to blood and to all the doṣas, dantabheda when the teeth have burst, upajihvikā when subject to pāka, and, finally, galagaṇḍa and svarabhraṃśin,⁵⁷⁴ when accompanied by difficulties in breathing and lasting for longer than a year (21.66b–69ab);