Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

^h^P- VI. i^IDANA ST liAN AM.
types of Prameha. The deranged Pittam, in conjunc-
tion with the deranged Vayii, blood, fat and Kapham,
produces the Pittaja ones ; while the deranged Vayu, in
unison with the deranged Kapham, Pittam, fat, marrow
and Vasa (myosin), engenders the types of Vataja
Prameha. 9.
Symptoms Of Kaphaja IVIchas : -The
urine* of a person suffering from an attack of Udaka-
meha becomes white and water-like and is passed without
the least pain. In a case of Ikshnmeha the urine
resembles the expressed juice of sugarcane. It has the
colour of wine in a case of Surameha. The urine in a
case of Sikatamsha is passed with pain and is found
to leave a sediment of extremely fine and sand-like
concretions (Si/catas). In a case of Sanaimeha the
urine gushes out at intervals in jets and is charged
with a slimy mucous (kaphah). The urine in a case of
Lavauamelia becomes limpid (non-viscid) and acquires
a saline taste. There is horripilation at the time of
micturition in a case of Pishtameha (Chyluria), the
urine resembling a stream of water, charged with a
solution of pasted rice (Pishtam).
In a case of Sandra,meha, the urine becomes
thick and turbid, while in a case of Sukrameha
the urine resembles semen (or the urine is found to
be charged with semen :—Madhaba). In a case of
* Tl e Sanskiit term Meha literally means to micturate. The verbal
noun Mehanam signifies urination as well as the act of passing any morbid
urethral fecretion. Hence the urine in most of these cases denotts the
fact of its being charged wiih pus or any other morbid secretion of the
urinary oigans such as Oj.ih (albumen), marrow, etc., which imparts thiir
characteristic colours to the fluid, —a fact which determines the nomen-
clature of the disease and forms the keynote of its diagnosis in the
Ayurveda. — Ed.
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