Symptoms of Krimi-karna and Karna-Vidradhi: — Germination of vermins or of other local parasites in the cavities of the ear completely impairs the faculty of hearing and is called Krimi-karna from the existence of worms in the ear. Any abscess caused by any local ulcer or by a blow, as well as any idiopathic abscess in the cavity of the ear is known as Karna-vidrathi. It is marked by a choked and burning sensation, and piercing and sucking pain, and it secretes red, yellow or reddish bloody discharges. 11-12.
Symptoms of Karna-páka and Puti-karna, etc.: — A process of suppuration setting in (in any of these boils) in the ear through the aggravated condition of the deranged Pitta is marked by a blocked and putrid condition of the passage of the ear. The disease is called Karna-páká(suppuration of the ear). A discharge of condensed and fetid pus whether accompanied or not with pain is set up by the local mucous accumulation in the passage of the ear having been liquefied by the heat of the aggravated Pitta. This disease is called Puti-karna (pus in the ear). The symptoms of swelling (Śopha), tumours (Arvuda) and polypoid growths (Arśas) *[1] in general as have been described before should be carefully understood by an experinced physicain to be the symptoms of these diseases in the region of the ear. 13-15.
Thus ends the twentieth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitá which deals with the causes and symptoms of the diseases peculiar to the ear.
- ↑ * See chapter VI, XVIII and XXIII, Chikitsita-Sthána.
