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The pulse changes within 24 hours and the patient is well in no time, if Ipeasac 30th potency 3 or 4 times a day, is given to the old suffering perlson.1 "At times patients exhibit regular typhoid symptoms of delirium, diarrhoea, and high fever, but Ipeacas cures them all when given on the indication of pulse and not on the routine symptoms of nausea and vomiting.'
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"The pulse indicating Causticum is hard, inflated, expanded with thick wall, non-compressible even with heavy pressure. Patients possessing such a pulse are usually of large size, flabby, and obese with luxurius eating habits. Such cases usually suffer from cancerous tumours like lipoema, neuroma, fibroma and such like."3
Peculiarity of language, metres, style of writing, method of exposition, etc. adopted in the composition of Nadivijnanam :
The language of Nadivijnanam of Maharshi Kanada is uniform as it is clearly stated throughout its text. This work has been composed by Maharshi Kanada in Sanskrit in poetic order from the beginning to the end as noted below :
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2. Ibid., p. 12 3. Ibid., p. 13
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