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Chap. LVI.] Diet:— Digestive and appetising Peyá, etc., should be given to the patient when he experiences a good hunger after he had been fully treated with a course of emetic or purgative or kept fasting for a proper period. 13.

Causes and Symptoms of Ánáha:- The disease in which Áma (undigested food) or fecal matter, gradually incarcerated (in the stomach) through the action of the deranged and aggravated local Váyu fails to find its natural outlet, or is not spontaneously evacuated is called Ánáha (Enteritis ?).

A case of Ánáha due to the accumulation of undigested food (in the stomach) exhibits such symptoms as thirst, cattarrh, burning in the head, a sense of heaviness and cramps in the stomach, nausea (D. R. — heaviness of the heart) and suppression of eructations. While a case of Ánáha in the Pakváśaya (intestines) is marked by a sense of stuffedness in the back and waist, suppression of stool and urine, colic, epileptic or fainting fits, vomiting of feces, laboured and difficult respiration (D. R. — swelling), as well as the symptoms mentioned under the head of Alasaka. 14.

Treatment: — in a case of Ánáha due to the presense of Áma, the patient should be treated with emetics and then with digestive medicines and diet according to the prescribed order. The Áma (undigested food) in a case not marked by any vomiting of feces should be treated with fomentation and therapeutic

mixed together and pasted with Kánjika. This would be the best remedy, for rubbing over the body of the patient, in a case of Visuchiká. Oil should be duly cooked with Chitraka, Yuthi-flower, oil-cakes (of sesamum), Bhallátaka, the two Ksháras, Saindhava and two parts of Kushtha. This should be prescribed by an expert to be rubbed, or used as a plaster over the body of the patient.