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Chap. XLII ] remedial measures are specifically recommended in the disease, according to the Dosha or Doshas involved in each case. 42.

Prohibited articles:— A person suffering from Gulma, should refrain from taking Vallura (dried meat), Mulaka (radish), fish, dried pot-herbs, any preparation of pease, Áluka, (potato of any kind) and any kind of sweet fruit. 43.

Causes and symptoms of Śula:— Now I shall deal with the causes, the characteristic symptoms and the treatment of Śula occurring in any specific locality of a Gulma even without its actual presence or formation therein. A voluntary retention of flatus (Váta), stool or urine, over-eating, indigestion, eating before the digestion of previous food, over-exertion, use of articles of food which are incompatible in their combination, drinking water when hungry, use of germinated grains, dry food or cakes of dry meat, as well as the use of other such-like articles of fare, derange and aggravate the bodily Váyu, which produces a violent cutting and spasmodic pain (Śula) in the main cavity of the trunk (Koshtha). The patient complains of as if being pierced with a Śamku (spear) in the inside and of a feeling of suffocation under the influence of that excruciating pain, which fact has determined the nomenclature of Śula(lit. — a spear). 44 — 45. Vátaja Śula: — The patient experiences a violent colic whenever in an empty stomach and he feels a difficulty of respiration. The limbs seem to be numbed or stuffed and the flatus, stool and urine are evacuated with the greatest difficulty — these are the symptoms which mark the Vátaja type of the disease. 46.

Pittaja Śula: — Thirst and a burning sensation in the body attended with an excruciating pain, giddi-