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 352 that deranged semen produces. In this case certain diuretics and decoctions with milk are to be administered, and the person is to approach his favourite wife. 10. When the appetite is not gratified, it is followed by drowsi- ness, pain as if the part was crushed, loss of appetite, fatigue, and the eye is dim. In this disease anoint the body with warm ghee and give it in the food, with hot drinks. 1 1 . When the thirst is not gratified, the mouth and throat are dry, the hearing becomes dull, and pain is felt in the breast. To l-emove this the person should take fresh conjee or barley water, with sugar and lemon juice. 12. When the breathing is difficult from being confined from the fatigue produced by severe exercise, the food appears to stick in the throat, the understanding is impaired which produces (Gidma), and there is a feeling of hard lumps in the abdomen. In such cases, rest, and gruel are to be enjoined with animal broths. 13. When sleep is not gratified, it is followed by yawning, and pain of the body, as if it was crushed. The eyes and head feel heavy, and coma supervenes. Give milk, employ soothing language, and what promotes sleep. The air of the stomach when dry, astringent, sour, or bitter food ,is eaten, produces quickly TJddbarta, and deranges the canals of air, urine, faeces, blood, phlegm, fat, and the vessels which feed them. Air closes these canals and produces pain in the breast and pelvis, with heaviness of the body, and no appetite, with scanty evacua- tions. The retention of the above discharges produces pain of the chest and abdomen, nausea, laziness, and the air, urine, and dejections are evacuated with pain. If produced by phlegm there is difficult and noisy breathing, and the phlegm is discharged from the mouth and nose. (Corysa). In this case there is neither taste nor smell ; and the body feels hot, with dejection of mind. The person is insensible, and complains of thirst, fever, vomiting, hiccough, and head-ache. The person is deaf, the body swims round, followed by the other symptoms produced by deranged air. The life of such a person should be considered hopeless, when there is much thirst, great weakness, and languor, severe pain in the abdomen, and ster- coraceous vomiting. K kinds of TJddharta are to be treated as diseases of air, so as to open the closed up passages, and the body in such cases of disease should be anointed with oil and salt, and prepared ghee should be taken internally, enemas should also be used. If the disease is not cured by these medicines, hot applica- tions are to be placed upon the abdomen, followed by oleaginous