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DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE NO.
337
suffering from the dataroga (wind-trouble) was advised to drink clarified butter 1 or take food or sweets like ghaya punna2 in which the clarified butter was poured in abundance. Use of the products of eranda (ricinus communis ) was also prescribed for the
elimination of this class of diseases.' (xxvii) Vikiccika ( Propriasis )–Vikiccika was a kind of skin
disease. * Susruta explains vicarcika as a kind of minor leprosy characterised by excessive pain and itching and giving rise to extremely dry crack like marks on
the body. 5 (xxviii) Višūcika ( Cholera )-Over-eating is mentioned as the
possible cause of this disease.
1. si Pathet afat et anataractant I feelà-NC. 4, p. 340;
qadficut miferi-Brh. V. 2, p. 557. 2. qitet at Threvi_NC. 3, p. 97; Brh. Vr. 4, p. 1005. 3. NC. 2, p. 316; also-BỊh. Vị. 2, p. 323. Eranda was meant to pacify
the deranged wind and thus helped the limbs in the swift motion.
Sharma, Priyavrata, op. cit., pp. 51–53. 4. NO. 2, p. 214. 5. Susrutasainitā, Nidānasthāna, v. 9-10. 6. yü ar faqat_N 5. 2, p. 267; Bih. Vr. 4, p. 1039.
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