taste in the mouth, an aversion to all sorts of pursuits, heaviness about the throat and cardiac region and a rumbling sound in the abdomen (Jathara) arc the premonitory symptoms which usher in a fit of hiccough. 5.
Symptoms:— The bodily Váyu being suddenly deranged by taking too much food and drink, is pushed upward and belched out in gusts which are known as Annajá Hiccá. The hiccough which occurs in double strokes and at long intervals shaking the head and the neck is called Yamalá. The hic-cough which rises with a mild force and at long intervals from the root*[1] of the clavicles (Jatru) is called Kshudriká. The violent hiccough which rises from the region of the umbilicus accompained by a deep sound and interfering with free respiration, causing dryness of the lips, throat, tongue and of the mouth and producing pain at the sides and complicated with many other distressing symptoms, is called Gambhirá The hiccough which produces a feeling of crushing pain as it were, at the vulnerable parts (Marmans) and stretches out the body in full, shaking all the limbs and which occurs frequently and with a considerable force accompained by a report, and produces a severe thirst is called Mahá-Hiccá. 6 — 10
Prognosis: — A hiccough-patient whose body is stretched out in full during a fit, with his eyes turned upward and fixed in a gaze as well as the one suffering from weakness, frequent sneezing (D. R. — cough) or an aversion to food as well as those suffering from the last two cases of Hiccá viz., Gambhirá and Mahati should be given up as incurable. 11.
- ↑ * By the word "Mula" (i.e., root) of the Jatru (clavicles) Gayadásá understands the regions of the heart, Kloma, throat, etc. — Dallana.
