INSOMNIA: Cause : Blood pressure in head, cold feet, over-eating, under-eating, excessive tea drinking, constipation, mental agony, excitement, and worms in the stomach. Treatment: According to the cause. Where threr is constipation, give Kosthasuddhi
Tremor: Symptoms: Trembling. The trembling is not as severe as in swooning and there is no loss of consciousness. The trembling may affect the whole body, or only a part. At the time of trembling
Spasm: Symptoms: Cramping, shivering, loss of sensitivity, flickering sight, pain in teeth, and sometimes low temperature. Treatment: Oil and ghee should be prohibited at the beginning of the disease, at which time phlegm is
Locomotor Ataxia: In this disease the thighs become cold, heavy, painful, and unliftable. Treatment: Saribadi Salsa in the morning, Brihat Bat Gajankus at 9 a. m., and Maha Rasunpinda at evening. Brihat Saindhabadi Taila
Melancholia: Causes: Grief and fear. Incapacity in dealing with the wants of the family, with personal wants of sexual enjoyment, etc. and menstrual disorders in women often lead weak-minded people into melancholia. Symptoms :
Hypochondria: The patient is not diseased but thinks himself diseased. It is a nervous disorder. Causes: Nervous debility, heavy discharge of semen, mental agony, grief, fear, worry, etc. If a man is gloomy, thinking
Insanity: Causes: Hard labor, anxiety, excessive sex enjoyment, irregular eating and moving, frequent intoxication, breakdown in health, despondency, fear, grief, inherited epilepsy, bites, brain fever, spinal weakness, male sexual debility, puerperal insanity, mal-nutrition, remittent fever,
Delirium Tremens: Causes: Hard drinking, drunkenness while in hunger, weakness, or indigestion. Symptoms: Flatulence, eructation, vomiting, burning sensation in the stomach, heart pain, swooning, delirium, burning, headache, trembling, sleeplessness, fever, perspiration, hallucination, and diarrhoea.
Apoplexy: Cause: Severe gas in stomach, causing reactions in heart, brain, mind, and senses. A sudden flow of blood into the brain ruptures blood-vessels, causing hemorrhage; water then accumulates in the brain, bringing on apoplexy.
Tetanus: Cause: Severe gas. Doctors say this is a spasm of various muscles, particularly on toes and fingers, associated with unhygienic conditions, imperfect ventilation, poor diet, rickets, etc. Symptoms : Inability to open mouth,
Swooning: Cause: Distressing gas in the stomach, profuse or insufficient flow in menstruation. More prevalent among females. Symptoms : Heart pain, yawning, incomplete knowledge. Unlike epilepsy, there is no vomiting, clenching of teeth, distortion
Hysteria: Causes: High blood pressure, scanty blood, worry, grief, uterine disorders, dysmenorrhea, inability to enjoy sex life, faulty heredity, etc. This disease occurs more among women than among men. Symptoms: Much like epilepsy except
Epilepsy: Cause : Abnormality of the temperamental factors as a result of heredity, fear, strokes, masturbation, bites, hard drinking, mental and physical depression, etc. Symptoms: Sudden loss of strength, heart throbbing, vacant heart, yawning,
ACUTE RHEUMATISM: Cause : Excessive gas and blood-poisoning. Symptoms: Round -shaped swellings in different places ( like ringworm swellings), paleness, dulless, frequent pains in the joints (sometimes decreasing), oozing from inflamations, burning sensation, pinching pain,
ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM: Cause: Toxic secretions stored in the joints, umbilical region, and in places with phlegm. After child-birth women often have diarrhea and then get articular rheumatism. Insect bites may affect the blood and