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In the ripe swelling, when it is pressed with a finger the pus inside moves here and there like water in a full leather bag.

Pus coming out upward, with breathlessness, cough, hiccup and other vata signs, is fatal; pus draining downward is curable.

Chapter 15 describes twenty-eight ear diseases arising mainly from aggravated vata, alone or with other doshas, and treats them by dosha with ear oils, fomentation, washes and other…

Junction diseases of the eye marked by discharge, of four kinds: pus (sannipata), kapha, pitta and blood.

Apachi is described as small hard swellings, round or long, formed by fat accumulating at the jaw, throat, eyes and joints; some burst and discharge, some subside by themselves and new ones…

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.

A tooth with black holes, very loose, discharging pus without special cause and constantly aching; it is to be extracted.

A junction disease of the eye: a large knot with little pain that does not suppurate; when it does ripen it becomes the pus discharge.

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

When kaphopanaha ripens and discharges much pus it is called puyasrava (pus discharge, glossed as the sannipata discharge); when the discharge is white, dry, thick and very slimy, it is the…

A minor disease: very hard, mouthless eruptions in the flesh with a little pus, from kapha and vata.

Flow of foul-smelling pus from the ear.

Discharge of pus mixed with blood from the nose after worm wounds in the forehead region, vitiated doshas or injury; treated like a corrupted wound and a sinus tract.

A junction disease of the eye: the alaji swelling once it has ripened and discharges pus.

A wound that is stable, without discharge of pus, painless, pigeon-coloured inside and fleshy (filling in) is to be known as clean, and a clean wound surely heals; a wound level with the…

Water entering the ear while diving, a blow to the head, or a boil or abscess in the ear that ripens and bursts leads to constant discharge of pus, called karnasamsrava.

Burning, very severe pustules from pitta that discharge pus and blood make up parisarpa, which is hot and spreads over the whole body; the sharp form is called visarpana.

When that same swelling ripens, with pricking and splitting pain and much discharge of pus, it is puyalasa. A large, non-suppurating knot with little pain at the junction of sight is…

A tooth with black holes that is very loose, discharges pus without special cause and always aches is krimidanta (kitadanta); the wise physician should extract it quickly, since, the…

Some apachi nodules burst by themselves and discharge pus, some subside by themselves, and new ones of various irregular forms keep appearing; the oil described earlier is to be used for…

The diseases of all the junctions of the eye are of nine kinds only, to be described in order with their treatment. A movable, very soft, painless and very red pimple at the junction of the…

A minor disease from vata or injury in which the skin at the mouth of the genital organ hangs down and obstructs urine, with much pain; the commentary describes pus collecting and draining…

Parvani, alaji, puyalasa, kaphopanaha, four kinds of discharge (kapha, pitta, blood and pus) and krimigranthi.