Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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not like that any one talks with him (aversion to talk); such cases as cramp in hands and legs, patient reduced to skeleton but only his pulse is hot and accelerated; in such cases also patients survived by the use of external and internal medicines. There should not be talk of sudden death of patient.
According to Allopathy, the febrile heat of a patient is measured by putting a thermometer under left armpit. The heat of blood is normally 98°, so this temperature of a person is called the normal heat of the body of a man. In the case of fever, the quantity or degree or intensity of heat of the body of a patient becomes more than the normal temperature. The affected pulse (pittanadi) may not be clear, but the degree of heat of the patient has shot up to 100° only. In such case, the physician should not rest assured by depending on thermometer reading of body heat.
There is no mention of microscope to study smallest germs or bacteri a of diseases in any Ayurvedic works. But the movements of the pulse indicate the disease of worms (Krimiroge sthira manda kvacidvakra Kvacinmrduh).
In fever, there takes place an increase of 10 beatings with each degree of the rise of temperature of the body of a patient. The pulse of a dying patient becomes feeble, but the beating of his pulse increases. In such pulse, if there takes place the beating
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