Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

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CHAPTER XL
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment of
the diseases of the urinary tracts (Pramcha). i.
This disease may be ascribed to two causes, such
as the congenital (Sahaja) and that attributable to
the use of injudicious diet. The first type (Sahaja)
is due to a defect in the seeds of one's parents and
the second is originated from the use of unwhole-
some food. The symptoms, which mark the first
of these two types, are emaciation and a dryness
(of the body), diminished capacity of eating, too
much thirst and restlessness; while the symptoms, which
usually attend the latter type of the disease, are obesity,
voracity, gloss of the body, increased soporific tendency
and inclination for lounging in bed or on cushions. A
case of emaciation, etc., (viz., the first kind of Prameha)
should be remedied with nutritious food and drink, etc.,
whereas Apatarpana, etc., (fasting, physical exercise,
depletory measures etc.), should be adopted in cases of
obesity viz., the second kind of (Prameha). 2.
Forbidden Articles of Food & Drink
— All patients suffering from Prameha should forego
the use of (the different species of wine and fermented
liquor known as) Sauviraka, Tushodaka, Sukta, Maireya,
Sura, and Asava, water, oil, clarified butter, milk, any
modification of the expressed juice of sugarcane, cakes,
milk-curd, acid, Panaka*, the flesh of domestic and
aquatic animals and of those which frequent swamps
or marshy places 3.
^ Made of sugar, lemon-juice, or fermented rice-gruel boiled together.
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