Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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It becomes thick and hard like the form of a stick (lagudakrti) jumping upwards, in the case of taking nourishing food, oily stuff, etc. sweet and meat also.
रम्भागुड़वटाहारे शुष्करुक्षादिभोजने। वातपित्तातिरूपेण नाड़ी वहति निष्क्रमम् ।। V. २५ ।।
(25) In the case of taking banana (plantain), molasses, vada ( a kind of cake ), dry and rough articles like chipitaka (flattened rice), etc. the pulse flows like a snake or sometimes like a frog (plavagatih) as in the case of the disease caused by vitiation of bodily humours-vata (air) and pitta (bile or fire).
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(26) The pulse’moves outwards like a peacock in the case of taking sweet articles (madhure), it moves like an earth worm in that of taking bitter articles (tikte).
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(27) The pulse, becoming a little hot, moves like a frog (Plavagatih) in the case of taking acidic-tasting stuff and it moves like a finga (Bhrnga) (a kind of quail) in that of taking sour-tasting article (Katuke). It becomes hard and pale in taking astringent tasting stuff (Kashaye), while it becomes straight and fast in taking saltish stuff (lavane).
Nadi-Chikitsa
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