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to move.' It caused the movement of phlegm from
the respiratory passages. 1 (xiii) Kidima (Keloid Tumerous ) : Kidima was a type of
skin disease (kāyavrana) caused by the internal disorder in skin.2 Secretion of a type of black viscid matter from the affected portion like the thighs etc. was a normal feature of this disease. Susruta also describes kitima as a kind of kşudra-kuştha ( minor leprosy ) in which the eruptions exclude a kind of slimy secretion and are circular, thick, excessively itching, glossy and
black in colour. (xiv) Kuttha ( skin-diseases ): Kuttha was a general term for
all the skin-diseases. Daddu, kiţima, pama and vikiccika have been mentioned as various sub-varieties of kuttha. Bhinna-kuttha was also another type of
leprosy. 6 (xv) Mandaggi ( Dyspepsia ): Mandaggi was the disease
of dyspepsia. A person suffering from this disease was advised to take salt in order to strengthen the
power of the digestive organs.? (xvi) Padala : Padala was a kind of eye-disease caused by
the derangement of the simbha (sleşma--cough) element in the body.' It covered the layer of the eyes and the person affected by the same was unable to see anything.
1. Carakasamhita, Gikitsästhāna, 18. 8. 2. # south metal (arroquil) sed, flèH, , fafef71, 4tht, utellaan
1-NC. 2, p. 214. 3. Hi fare for thD aed-NC. 2, p. 62. 4. Sušrutasanhitā, Nidānasthäda, v. 9–10. 5. NO. 2, p. 213–14; Bih. Vļ. 2, p. 322. Eighteen kinds of kustha arc men
tioned in the Susrutasamnitā (Nidānasthāna, 5. 4-5) and Caraka
samhita, Ch. 7, pp. 2069–73. 6. NC. 2, p. 90. 7. ETT HETT FETT Tecyf-NC. 1, p. 67. 8. feryculare i contifelariatui qed Hot-NC. 3, pp-55–56.
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