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Sixty-six diseases of the mouth have now been described with care. Of these, the three lip diseases arising from all three doshas, from flesh and from blood are to be abandoned as incurable.

Mouth diseases arise from the doshas in seven sites: the two lips, teeth, tongue, gums, throat and palate.

All signs together mark the combined type; bleeding lips the blood type; firm, very thick lips the flesh type; lips like fat, ghee or honey the fat type.

Painful, very rough and hard lips indicate vata; burning, suppurating and cracked lips indicate pitta; large, heavy and slimy lips indicate kapha.

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

Ajirna is food that is not digested, in three kinds (ama, vidagdha, vishtabdha); constant eating of many foods leads to it and to alasaka, vilambika and vishuchika. It is treated with…

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,…

The introduction says prakṛti means keeping the body in its original state. The bīja dhātu is formed by the union of śukra (the male seed) and ārtava (the female seed), and the body is…

After the piles patient's body has been purified by emesis, purgation and the like and he is lodged in a good house, a physician who knows the method gives him a decoction of bhallataka…

After purifying the body by emesis, purgation and the like and lodging the patient in a good house, the physician gives him a decoction of bhallataka every morning, having first had ghee…

In indigestion, blackening of the tongue, teeth, nails and lips, severe vomiting, sunken eyes, loss of voice, loss of memory and slack limbs are said to be signs that the patient will soon…

Swelling above the eyes, heavy head, itching of throat, palate, lips and head, cold, thick white nasal discharge, craving for warm things, and the breathing passage blocked by dense phlegm…

Thin clear nasal discharge, a covered and blocked nose, dryness of throat, palate and lips, needling pain in the temples, loss of sleep, much sneezing and hoarseness mark vata coryza.

Head-purging nasya is used in the many kapha diseases above the collar bone (the commentary: throat, nose, eyes and so on), and can also be given with dry drugs. Four drops of the purging…

Manuscript 3: the copy in the Ai. Pa. Sarasvatī Bhavan, Mumbai, which the editor thinks is a copy of manuscript 2. He says the original already has scribal slips in places, and the later…

A person of pitta constitution is described as quick to anger, sharp-witted, bold, sweating, with yellowish veins, likeable, with coppery-red lips and palate; intelligent, brave,…

Possession of a person by a naga (serpent being), as the text describes it.

Patients with grave marma involvement, pains that vanish suddenly without treatment, changed nature, black teeth, black hard tongue and lips, stiff, sunken, red or protruding eyes,…

Smoke that properly calms a strong disease is called yoga or samyag yoga; ayoga is use that makes the disease increase, and atiyoga is use of suitable drugs in too large a measure; these…

A blistering disease spreading over the whole mouth (also called mukhapaka), of vata, pitta and kapha types, each treated with drugs removing the respective dosha.

Opens the section on mouth diseases (from verse 44), beginning with the seven sites of disease in the mouth and the eight diseases of the lips.

A person seized by a naga (uraga) graha crawls on the ground like a snake, licks the corners of the mouth and the lips with his tongue, grows very angry when troubled, and craves milk and…