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Hikka is provoked vayu (prana with kapha) rising repeatedly to the mouth with a hik sound while afflicting spleen, intestines and liver. It has five kinds, and certain signs mark it as…

Hiccup that constantly comes with force that greatly afflicts the vital points and shakes the whole body is the great hiccup. Hiccup that arises pressing the navel region, brings fever and…

Vata pressed down by too much sharp and pungent food suddenly rises with pain in the heart and ribs, causing annaja hiccup. Hiccup that shakes the throat and head and comes in pairs at…

In hiccup with much upward-moving vata, enema is especially used, purgation with rock salt and sour substances is arranged, and the warm group of foods is given.

Hiccup that comes after long intervals with slow force, step by step, from the root of the collarbone, that is from the junction of throat and chest, is kshudrika, true to its name.

The great vayu called prana, provoked together with kapha, produces five kinds of hiccup: annaja, yamika, kshudrika, mahapralaya and gambhirika.

To settle the hiccup and stop its bouts, the physician uses breath control, threatening the patient, striking, or startling with water and the like.

A powder of sugar, liquorice and long pepper is said to calm even violent hiccup. Gold and red ochre mixed with ghee, or realgar mixed with ghee, are also licked.

Opens the section on hikka (hiccup): cause, five kinds, incurable signs and treatment.

A hiccup patient whose body is stretched, who is very wasted, whose gaze turns upward, who sneezes, has anorexia and feels as if the ribs were broken, is left by the physician as incurable.

To settle the hiccup and check its bouts, the physician uses breath control, threatening, striking, or startling the patient with water and the like.

In hiccup with much upward-moving vata, enema is used especially, purgation with rock salt and sour substances is arranged, and the warm group of foods is given.

In the morning the patient drinks sour juice of citron, lemon and the like with rock salt, slightly warmed, or warm milk with ghee and powdered alkalis; this is said to destroy hiccup…

When provoked vayu, forcefully afflicting spleen, intestines and liver, comes up to the mouth again and again with a hik sound, it is hikka; because it destroys the life-breaths it is so…

Antimony collyrium (surma), amalaki, jujube and parched rice soaked in ghee and jaggery are given to eat; katurohini, and a paste of patali flowers and fruit, are also called useful.

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

Vidradhi is described as of two kinds, external and internal, the internal being the more severe.

If too much blood is let from a vein, vata disorders, wasting, breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anaemia, insanity and heat in the head are said to arise, and death may follow soon.

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…

Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…