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| ====== Diagnosis of oral diseases ====== | | ====== Diagnosis of oral diseases ====== |
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− | ''Vāta''-predominant oral disease:
| + | [[Vata]]-predominant oral disease: |
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| There is dryness, roughness, ununctuousness, shifting pain, black, reddish discoloration, salivation and coldness, loosening of teeth, pulsation/throbbing sensation, piercing and tearing pain.[119] | | There is dryness, roughness, ununctuousness, shifting pain, black, reddish discoloration, salivation and coldness, loosening of teeth, pulsation/throbbing sensation, piercing and tearing pain.[119] |
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− | ''Pitta''-predominant oral disease:
| + | [[Pitta]]-predominant oral disease: |
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| It is characterized by thirst, fever, eruptions, burning sensation in the palate, feeling of fumes in oral cavity, inflammations/ ulceration, different types of pain and various type of discoloration except white and redddish. [120] | | It is characterized by thirst, fever, eruptions, burning sensation in the palate, feeling of fumes in oral cavity, inflammations/ ulceration, different types of pain and various type of discoloration except white and redddish. [120] |
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− | ''Kapha''-predominant oral disease:
| + | [[Kapha]]-predominant oral disease: |
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| Itching, heaviness, pallor, sliminess, unctuousness, anorexia, stiffness, excessive salivation, nausea, poor digestion, drowsiness and dull ache. [121] | | Itching, heaviness, pallor, sliminess, unctuousness, anorexia, stiffness, excessive salivation, nausea, poor digestion, drowsiness and dull ache. [121] |
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− | ''Tri-doshaja'' oral disease:
| + | Tri-[[dosha]]ja oral disease: |
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− | All the above signs and symptoms may be seen which are caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three ''doshas''. | + | All the above signs and symptoms may be seen which are caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three [[dosha]]. |
| These oral-diseases are classified to be of sixty-four types, depending upon the location, pathogenic substratum/ tissue element, signs and symptoms and their names. [122] | | These oral-diseases are classified to be of sixty-four types, depending upon the location, pathogenic substratum/ tissue element, signs and symptoms and their names. [122] |
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