Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

CHAPTER XVI.
Now wc shall discourse on the Nidanam of
Mukharog^am (diseases which afifect the cavity of
the mouth in general), r.
General Classifications:—Sixty five* dif-
ferent forms of mouth disease are known in practice.
They are found to attack seven different localities viz.
the lips, the gums of the teeth, tongue, palate, throat and
the entire cavity ;
of these eight are peculiar to the lips ;
fifteen, to the roots of the teeth; eight to the teeth;
five to the tongue ;
nine
to the palate ; seventeen to
the throat; and three to the entire cavity. 2— 3.
Diseases of the lips :—The eight forms which
affect the lips, are either Vataja, Pittaja, Kaphaja, Sanni-
patika, Raktaja, Mans'aja, Medaja or Abhighataja
(Traumatic). 4.
The Vataja Type :—The lips become dry,
rough,numbed, black, extremely painful and the affected
part seems as if it were smashed and pulled out or
cracked by the action of the aggravated Vjiyu. In the
Pittaja type—the lips become blue or yellow-coloured
and studded with (a large number of small) mustard-
seed-like eruptions, which suppurate and exude a puru-
lent discharge attended with a burning sensation (in
the locality). In the Kaphaja type—the affected lips
are covered with small eruptions, which are of the same
colour as the surrounding part, and become slimy, heavy
or thick, cold and swollen. Pain is ab.sent in this type
and the patient feels an irresistible inclination to scratch
the parts. In the Sannipaitaja type, the lips change
* According to others sixty-seven—but Dalian does not support this.