Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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his pulse can not be felt by the touch of the finger of the physician. So the heat of his body also should be examined to get the correct stage of his fever.
There are two pluses running at two sides of a person near the shoulder joints, if one of them is presssed hy the touch of the finger of the physician, the pulse of that side is not found. Even the missing or vanishing pulse of a dying patient may come again to its own place in the wrist (Svasthanasthiti) by the power or action of medicine. In the case of ulcer of chest of a patient his death may occur by sudden discharge of his blood. The death of a patient may also take place in the case of dyspnoea and heart disease of a patient by sudden gasping or breathing trouble. In cholera and Vatapravalroga (air-intensive disease) the death of a patient may occur by sudden cramp in his chest. Therefore, the physician cannot depend only on the examination of the pulse of a patient without a thorough check up and examination of the nature of his disease and other organs of his body.
There have been such cases of spleen, liver, fever and dropsy, over and above such diarrhoea that not a drop of water stays in the stomach; such ulcer that uvula and palate and gum of teeth are on the verge of disintegration, such a case that a patient remained without food for three days because of his incapacity to drink even milk; such diseases as bleeding from the nose and gum for two-three weeks; a patient did
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