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starch. It is the sort of stuff which is only fit to be
used as glue by a book binder. It will clog the
bowels and constipation will be the result, thus
paving the way for other chronic diseases. No
wonder that in all cases of dyspepsia the allopath
fails miserably. In ihe beginning the stomach will
overwork itself to digest such indigestible combina-
tions of foods.* But later, a stage will be reached
when the tired digestive organs will cease to take
the trouble of digesting such stuff and the food will
pass along, either partly digested or undigested.
Diarrhoea will then be the result.

Another queer medical notion is that the
stomach should never be allowed to remain empty
whenever its walls are ipflamed. One writer says
that the inflamed edges of the wound may come
into contact with another part of the stomach and
give rise to more pain. It is a fact that in many
cases where suffering is due to the presence of
irritating fluids in the stomach/ the pain is slightly
lessened for some time when some food is eaten.
The lessening of the pain is probably due to the
irritating liquids getting diluted. But eating at this
stage will lead to the formation of more of such
irritating liquids and the pain will become more
intense after a short time. The right course in such
cases is to induce vomiting to bring out the irritating
liquids, and to give rest to the stomach for a mini-
mum period of 12 hours. Other soothing measures
to be adopted when there is acute distress will be
dealt with in a later section.

* A pasty mixture of rice and dal Is by Itself difficult to digest
When ghee also is added in plenty, every particle of rice and
dal gets covered with a filament of ghee and thus the digestive
juices ar© prevented from having direct access to the particles
of grain.