A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c25.543

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Foreign bodies (śalya) may penetrate the body in three ways (gati): from above, from below and moving horizontally; each track may be straight or crooked (37.2).888 The general characteristics of a wound (vraṇa) containing a foreign body are described (37.3),889 followed by the characteristics of wounds where the foreign body is present in the layers of the skin, the muscular tissue (māṃsa) (37.4), a muscle (peśī), sirā, snāva (37.5), srotas, dhamanī, bone (37.6), joint, both bone and joint (37.7), the koṣṭha, and a marman (37.8).890 The type of exudation (parisrāva) is also characteristic.891 Small foreign bodies produce the same signs to a lesser degree (37.9).