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$0 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap, Xlll.
gradual falling off, while the deranged blood and
Kapham of the locality fill up those pores or holes, thus
barring their fresh growth and recrudescence. The
disease is called Indralupta,* Rujya or Khatlitya (Alo-
pecia). Darunaka:— The disease in which the hairy
parts of the body (roots of hairs) become hard, dry and
characterised by an itching sensation is called Diiru-
naka. The disease is due to the action of the deranged
Kapham and Vayu. Arunshika :— Ulcers (A runshi) at-
tended with mucopurulent discharges and furnished with
a number of mouths or outlets and appearing on the
scalps of men as the result of the action of local
parasites and of the deranged blood and Kapham (of
the locality) are called Arunshik^. Palitam :—The
heat and Pittam of the body having recourse to the
region of the head owing to overwork, fatigue, and ex-
cessive grief or anger, tend to make the hair prema-
turely grey, and .such silvering of the hair ibefore the
natural period of senile decay) is called Palitam.
Masurika (variola) :—The yellow or copper-coloured
pustules or eruptions attended with pain, fever and burn-
ing and appearing all over the body, on (^the skin of,) the
face and inside the cavity of the mouth, are called
Masurikl Yauvana-pidakai—(Mukhadushikski : —
The
pimples like the thorns of a Salmali tree, which arefound
on the face of young men through the deranged condition
of the blood, Vayu and Kapham, are called Yauvana-
pidaka or pimples of youth. Padmini-Kantaka :
—The circular, greyish patches or rash-like eruptions
* Women are generally proof against this disease owing to their
delicate constitution and to their being subjected to the monthly discharge
of vitiated blood and at the same time to their undergoing no physical
exercise, and hence there is little chance of the bodily Pittam being
deranged and bringing on this disease.