Hydrocele:

Causes: Sudden strike, inflammation of veins, breakdown of health, suspended testicles.

Symptoms: Throbbing pain at times, increase of disease during the black and full moons and on the 10th and 11th days after these two moons, pain in the testicles or whole body and feverishness during these particular days. Enlargement of one testicle is called. hydrocele ; enlargement of two testicles is called rheumatic hydrocele.

Treatment: Saribadi Salsa and Nityananda Ras are to be taken with cold water. For quicker results give Ambatari Batika or Singhanad Guggulu with hot water. Any of these medicines will clear up constipation. The testicles should be massaged with Saindhabadya Ghrita or Saindhabadya Taila or Suskamuladya Taila or Brihat Mandar Taila. In fever prescribe Sarbajwara Bati. The testicles should have a sheep fur fomentation after massage.

Diet: Barley and sago when there is fever. When fever is gone, give rice of old stock, trichosanthes dioica, tender eggplant, radish, other vegetables, cow ghee, and hot drinking water. Meat, fish, curd, milk, sweets, and rich foods are not to be given.