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chap. I.] and unconsciousness set In. Consciousness and a normal condition of the organism return with the passage of the enraged Vayu from the heart, while on the other hand the patient relapses into unconsciousness simultaneously with the envelopment of the heart with that enraged and Kapha-saturated Vayu. This disease is called Apatantrakah and is ascribed to the action of the enraged Vayu surcharged with the deranged Kapham. 56.

Manyastambha:— The local Vayu, agitated through such causes as sleep in the day time, reclining with the neck on an uneven place or pillow, gazing upward for a considerable length of time, or looking aside in a contorted way, and enveloped in the deranged Kapham, gives rise to the disease known as Manyastambha (wry neck or torticollis). 57.

Arditam (Facial Paralysis):~*Pregnant women, mothers immediately after parturition (Sutika), infants, old and enfeebled persons are most prone to fall victims to this disease*. It has been also known to result from excessive haemorrhage or loss of blood. The local Vayu, extremely enraged or aggravated by continuous talking in an extremely loud voice, chewing of hard substances, loud laughter, yawning, carrying extremely heavy loads, and lying down in an uneven position on the ground, finds lodgment in the regions of the head, nose, upper lip, chin, forehead and the joints (inner cornea) of the eye, and produces the disease called Arditam by distorting the face.

Symptoms:—The neck and half of the face longitudinally suffer distortion and are bent. The head shakes; the power of articulating speech is lost, and the.

by Jejjadacharyya as spurious.
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