Other descriptions include tearing, gripping pain, numbness or tingling, or a pointed stabbing pain.
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"I felt a gripping pain in my stomach and then everything went dark, " said Shanti Chavan, 9, who was brought to the hospital by her father.
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After a battle with the illness which went on from dusk until midnight, Tambiah writes that Ajahn Mun's mind " realized the nature of the formations, including the gripping pain, and'the illness totally disappeared and the mind withdrew into absolute, unshakable one-pointedness'".