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102 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XVI.
colour, becoming black, yellow, or ash-colourcd (white)
at intervals and are found to be studded with various
sorts of eruptions. 5—8,
The Raktaja type : —(Produced by the vitiated
condition of the blood) the affected lips look as red as
blood and profusely bleed and crops of date coloured
(chocolatecoloured) eruptions appear on their surface. In
the Ma^usaja type (due to the vitiated condition of the
local flesh), the lips become heavy, thick and gathered up
in the form of a lump of flesh. The angles of the
mouth become infested with parasites which germi-
nate and spread themselves in the affected parts. In
the Medaja(fat-origined; type the lips become numbed,
soft, heavy and marked by an itching sensation. The
skin of the inflamed surface becomes glossy and looks
like the surface layer of clarified butter exuding a thin
crystal-like (transparent) watery discharge. In the
Abhighataja (Traumatic) type, the lips become red,
knotty and marked by an itching sensation and seem as
if .pierced into or cut open with an axe and (become
cracked and fissured). 9— 12.
Disease of the roots of the teeth ;—
Diseases which are peculiar to the roots of the teeth, are
known as Sitada, Danta-pupputaka, Danta-veshtaka,
Saushira, Maha-Saushira, Paridara, Upakus'a, Danta-
vaidarbha, Vardhana, Adhimansa and the five sorts of
NAdi (sinus). 13.
Sitada (Scurvy);—The gums of the teeth suddenly
bleed and become putrified, black,slimy and emit a fetid
smell. They become soft and gradually slough off.
The disease has its origin in the deranged condition
of the local blood and Kapham. Danta pupputaka
(crum boil):— The disease in which the roots of two or
three teeth at a time is marked by a violent swelling and