Symptoms

In children, fever with up-turned eyes. Eventually the child dies.

Some remedies

1. The nágdoná plant (which grows about two feet in height, with thorns⁽¹⁾ and very strong-smelling leaves) is an excellent medicine for nerves. If, when a child suffers from spasmodic fits, leaves of this plant are pounded to paste and the child is made to smell the paste, the convulsions will be cured. There is no other medicine for this disease.

Nágdoná plants also prevent being struck by lightning.

2. If the patient’s face, hands and feet are washed with water in which potatoes have just been boiled, this will also control the convulsions.

Footnotes

(1) There are thornless varieties of nágdoná which are thought to serve the purpose. –Trans.