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Nadiprakasam states conditions of the pulse in Ajirna (indigestion) that of the full-blooded pulse, that of the pulse in dysentery, and those of the pulses of a satisfied person and a hungry man respectively, the conditions of the pulse in the case of taking, suitable and unsuitable food.
Nadiprakasam presents the knowledge of taste of food affecting the movement of the pulse, for example, the movement of the pulse becomes like that of a peacock in the case of taking sweet stuff.
. It speaks of the slow pulse in Agnimandya (slowness of digestion) and Dhatuksaya (waste of bodily humours) and the light and forceful pulse in Diptagni (kindled fire in the body).
Then it discusses the conditions of the pulse in different types of Atisara (dysentery), e. g. slow pulse like a water leech in the summer in the case of dysentery, crooked pulse in Vatatisara (dysentery caused by some derangement of bodily humour-vata, air), etc. It deals with different types of grahaniroga (chronic diarrhoea), e. g. the pulse becomes crooked in Vatajagrahani (diarrhoea produced by some derangement of bodily humour-vata = air).'
Next Nadiprakasam gives the knowledge of the pulse in the case of suppression of stool and urine. The movement of the pulse becomes like that of a frog, in the case of suppression of both stool and urine. The pulse becomes plavagamini (moving like
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