CHAPTER LIX.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the (symptoms and) medical treatment of the defects of urine (Mutra-dosha-Pratishedha).* [1] 1.
Classification: — The disease known as Mutropagháta is divided into eight different types according as an attack is induced by the deranged action of the bodily Váyu, Pitta and Kapha separately, or is due to the concerted action of all of them, or to the effects of an external blow or hurt (on the locality), or to the pressure of the feces incarcerated (in the intestine), — i.e. to the constipation of the bowels— or to the presence of any stone (Aśmari in the bladder). The eighth is the one due to the presence of gravels (Śarkará in the bladder). This disease is one of the most painful and distressing ailments which assail the human body. 2.
Specific Symptoms:— A scanty flow of urine coming out in drops and producing an oppressive and bursting pain in the scrotum, penis and bladder, is the specific feature of the Vátaja type of the disease. The Pittaja type is characterised by the emission of bloody or high-coloured (lit. dark yellow) and (very) warm urine which produces a burning sensation in the scrotum, bladder and penis being burnt by fire, as it were. A
- ↑ * Dallana's reading evidently is Mutra-krichchhra (Strangury), for he says that the variant here in some Mss. is Mutra-dosha. He says further that some do not read this chapter at all on the ground that the matter in this chapter is included in the chapters on Aśmari, Mutrághatá and Udávarta, etc. But, according to him, it must be read here for treatment's sake as well as on the ground of its being separately treated in other authoritative works. Mádhava, Chakra-páni, Vrinda and other compilers have read this as Mutra-krichchhra in a separate chapter as here.
