mucus, and feel cold and heavy, and cannot be turned about, and the face and the eyes look swollen or flabby, should be attributed to the action of the deranged bodily Kapha, and is called the Kaphaja-Śiroroga. A case marked by the concerted action of all the three preceding Doshas exhibits all the symptoms peculiar to all of them, and is known as the Trl-doshaja-Śiro-roga. 2-6.
Symptoms of Ráktaja, Kshayaja and Krimija types of Śiro-roga:— A case of headache due to the vitiated condition of the local blood manifests all the symptoms of the Pittaja type, and the head becomes incapable of (bearing) the least touch. This is known as the Raktaja-Śiroroga. A case of headache incidental to the waste of the local Vasá (fat) or Kapha*[1] is marked by an intolerable pain (Abhi-tápa) in the head which is aggravated by the application of fomentation, fumigation, errhine, emetic and blood-letting. This is known as the Kshayaja-Śiro-roga. The disease of the head in which a pricking and tingling pain is felt inside the head as if being stung, (by some poisonous insect), and which is accompanied by a watery discharge mixed with blood (D. R. pus) from the nose, should be attributed to the existence of local parasites. This disease is a dangerous one and is known as the Krimija (Parasitic) Śiro-roga. 7-9.
Symptoms of Suryávarta Śiro-roga:— The disease of the head in which a severe pain is felt in the eye and the eyebrow just at sunrise, and
- ↑ * Dallana here comments that the term "Vasa" means all the fatty substances in the body, e.g., the brain substance, Medas, semen, Majjan, etc. There is a variant which is not recognised by Gayi. That reading is ' ' (i.e., by the waste) of blood, Vasá Kapha and Váyu. This, however, seems to be the better reading.
