Sensations of burning in the Hands and Feet.
This is of two kinds, a dry, and a sweating, kind. The method of cure among the natives is as follows:
Sweating kind.
Take of Chook, Khoot, Lahoria Nemuk, each two parts; Black Till Oil, 12 parts; mix and rub in for 14 days.
Dry kind.
Let a hole be dug in the earth, and fire kindled therein, till the ground becomes well heated; strew the bottom of the excavation with Mudar leaves, and sprinkle on them new milk, till the fumes arise. The feet to be placed in the hole, on the leaves, and a blanket to be spread over, and round the knees, to prevent the escape of the heated vapour. In this manner the patient is to sit till the place becomes cold; and this is to be repeated for seven days, when the cure will be complete.
In the opinion of the Physicians of Hindostan, the human frame is divided into seven principal parts. These are chyle, blood, muscles, fat, bones, brain, marrow, and semen.