Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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case of hardness of flowing substance. There becomes a separate and knotty and developed pulse in the case of taking nourishing stuff (v. 27).
Next Nadiprakasam speaks of the knowledge of Agnimandya (slowness of digestion) and Dhatuksaya (waste of bodily humours). The pulse becomes slower (mandatara) in the case of slowness of digestion and waste of bodily humours; it becomes cool in the case of slowness of digestion and moves like a swan. (V. 28).
Nadiprakasam deals with the knowledge of Diptagni (kindled fire in the body) in V. 29 by saying that the pulse flows lightly (i. e. neither developed nor feeble) and forcefully (balavati).
In regard to Atisara (dysentery) of different types Nadiprakasam discusses the conditions of the pulse in verses 30-31. In dysentery there becomes a slow pulse like a water leech in the summer, crooked pulse in vatatisara (dysentery caused by some derangement of bodily humour-vata) and unsteady pulse in pittatisar (dysentery caused by some derangement of bodily humour-pitta) and the movement of the pulse is like that of a gander in kaphatisara (dysentery caused by some derangement of bodily humour-kaph) (V. 30)
Vatapittatisara: In Dwandvajatisara (dysentery caused by derangement of two bodily humours-vata and pitta) the movement of the pulse becomes like
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