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a frog) in the case of constipation and it becomes thick and dull in Amatisara (dysentery with mucus) at the and of the evacuation of stools.
Nadiprakasam states the conditions of the pulse in different types of Arsa (piles), e. g. the pulse becomes steady, slow-moving or sometimes crookedly moving and sometimes gently moving in piles.
The pulse is sometimes missing, sometimes slow and sometimes fast in the disease of worms; it is steady-going in Jaundice and again it becomes fully developed, while the pulse remains steady in bilious disease, but sometimes it becomes hot.
In the case of Raktapitta (derangement of blood produced by bile) the pulse is slow-moving and hard, it is hot, heavy and accelerated in vomiting of blood from the upper current of orifices.
Nadiprakasam deals with the pulses in cough, asthma, hoarseness of voice, insanity, gout and torpor of the bowels attended with flatulence and intumescence (Vatarakta, amavata etc.), colic (sula), and in disease of the bowels by retention of excréments, suppression of urine and painful discharge of urine (Udavarttanahamutrakrcchra), enlarged spleen (gulma), heart disease (hrdoga), gonorrhoea (meha), obesity (nedoroga), boils (Vranadi) and leprosy (Kustharoga).
The pulse is thin, restless, slow developed and hot in cough; it has intense movement in asthma, it is thin or feeble in broken articulation or hoarseness;
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