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Chap. XVI.] XIDANA STIIANAM. til
ViCiari : -The disease in which a copper-coloured
swelling occurs in the throat, marked by a pricking and
burning sensation, and the flesh of the throat gets
putrefied and sloughs off (and emits a fetid smell) is
called Vidari. The disease is of a Pittaja origin and is
found to attack that side of the throat on which the
patient is in the habit of lying. 67.
The disease in the entire cavity: —
Cases which are found to invade the entire cavity of
the mouth (without being restricted to any particular
part thereof) may be either due to Vataja, Pittaja,
Kaphaja or Raktaja type and are known by the general
name SaVra-Sara. 68.
In the Vataja type the entire cavity of the mouth
is studded with vesicles attended with a pricking
sensation in their inside. In the Pittaja type a large
number of small yellow or red-coloured vesicles attended
with a burning sensation crops up on the entire (mucous
membrane lining the cavity of the mouth. In the Kaphaja
variety a similar crop of slightly painful, itching vesicles
of the same colour as the skin (is found on the entire
inner surface of the mouth.) The blood-origined itaktaja
type is nothing but a modification of the Pittaja one
(giving rise to similar symptoms) ; it is also by others
called Mukha-paka. 69-72.
Thus ends the sixteenth Chapter of the Nidana Sthanani in the Sui'ruta
Samhita which treats of the Nidanam of the diseases of the mouth.
Here ends the Nidana Sthanam.