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Chap. XX. ] peculiar sound in the ear) may be attributed to such causes, as to the use of any cold thing or exposure to cold after being treated with a head-purging remedy (errhines), or to the continuance of the deranged local Váyu in the sound-passage, aggravated by excessive labour, by any wasting process in the system or by taking articles of fare of astringent taste or of parching (Ruksha) property.* 5-6.

Symptoms of Karna-Sráva and Karna-kandu: — Any discharge or secretion of pus from the ear caused by the deranged bodily Váyu stuffing the ear-cavity, owing to a blow on the head or a long immersion in water or a spontaneous suppuration (and bursting) of an abscess in the inner ear, is called Karna-sráva. The excessive itching sensation in the ear due to the aggravation of the local Kapha is called Karna-kandu. 7-8.

Symptoms of Karna-gutha and Karna-Prati-náha: — Any mucous accumulation in the ear dried and hardened by the heat of the local Pitta is called Karna-gutha; when the dried accumulation of the ear in cases of Karna-gutha becomes liquefied, (and comes out through) the cavity of the nose † and produces head-disease ‡ it is called Karna-Prati-náha. 9-10.