Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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of a frog in the case of suppression of only stool or only urine or both, or voluntary suppression of them or in obstructed abdomen due to cholera or painful discharge of urine and fever, etc. while it becomes crooked and thin (fine) due to obstruction of urine or ordure. (V. 34)
Then the knowledge of the pulse of constipation, etc. (vilambikadijnanam) is presented :
The pulse becomes plavagamini (moving like a frog) in the case of evacuation of bowels, i. e, stool, in the disease of constipation, otherwise it is often gently moving. In Amatisara (dysentery with mucus) the pulse becomes thick (or large) and inert at the end of evacuation of stools.
Nadiprakasam state the conditions of the pulse in different types of haemerrhoids (piles) (Arsa). The pulse becomes steady, slow moving or sometimes crookedly moving and sometimes gently moving in piles, in vataja Arsa (piles caused by derangement of bodily humour-vata (wind) the movement of the pulse is crooked; in pittaja Arsa (piles caused by derangement of bodily humour-bile) it is jumpy like a frog: in kaphaja Arsa (piles caused by derangement of bodily humour-phlegm) it is steady. In kaphavataja Arsa1 the pulse is developed, accelrated and
1. Piles caused by some derangement of two bodily humourvata nnd kaph.
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