Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA

Translated into English.

PUBLISHED BY

A YIN ASH CHANDRA KAVIRATNA,

Editor of Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita (in original) Commentaries ; Bengali and Hindi Translator of Charak Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita; Editor of ChikitsaSammilani (Medical Journal in Bengali) ; Prac¬ titioner of the Hindu System of Medicine, &c., &c., &c.

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ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.

PART XVII.

The contents of Lesson V. are, —

The human body is a conglomeration of. ducts (aphorisms 1(04):

The roots -of (he three and ten kinds of ducts (aphorisms

The indications of their vitiation (the concluding portions of the same aphorisms); '

1 he different names of the ducts (aphorisms 13) ; /

The circumstances attendant on their provocation (aphorisms

The causes of the. vitiation of each class of ducts (aphorisms 16 to 32) ;

. The medicines that should be prescribed for each class of ducts when vitiated (aphorisms 33 to 35).

Then comes Lesson VI. Its contents are, —

The conception ^of groups of diseases according to difference of

The absence of difference between diseases and faults, and the synonymous. character of the two terms (aphorisms 4 and 5) ;

Enumeration of faults and of diseases (aphorisms 6 to o');

. Excitement of each one of the faults (aphorisms 10 to 13);

Considerations about digestion, kc. (aphorisms 14 to 18);

TIiq courses of treatment (aphorisms iq to 29).

Then comes Lesson VII. Its contents arc, —

The aspects presented by a diseased person ; grave diseases may not seem grave; so light diseases mav not seem light. Only skilled physicians are competent to judge of the gravity or lightness of diseases from merely the aspects presented by patients.

Then comes an enumeration of the worms that are generated in the human body. They are of 4 kinds; 1. Those born of faeces, 2. those born of phlegm, 3. those born of blood, and 4. those born of impurities.

The several habitats of these respective classes of worms, their names, colour, form, the causes of their generation, and the methods of treatment, &c , are then. laid down.

CM A RA KA SA MU IT A.

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Through sexual congress at improper seasons, through excessive abstention, through excessive indulgence in such con¬ gress, as also through cuts inflicted with weapons, through use of alkaline ashes, and through burns caused by fires, those ducts that bpar the vital seed become vitiated.26

From (excessive) discharges of urine, from excessive drafts of water, from excessive indulgence in sexual congress, from suppression of urine, the urine-bearing ducts become vitiated. Those very ducts of persons also that are weak, or that are ex¬ ceedingly lean, become vitiated.27*

From suppression (of stools), from excessive eating, from eating before the food last taken has been digested, those ducts that bear stools become vitiated; Those very ducts of persons also that are of weak digestive fire, or that are exceedingly lean, become vitiated.28

From (undue) physical exercise, from excessive agitation of mind, from irregular exposure to cold and heat, the ducts that bear sweat become vitiated. Through wrath, grief, and fear also the same result occurs.2St

Such food, and such practices, as correspond with the qualities of the faults, and as are hostile to the ingredients ( dhdtus ) of the body, are vitiators of the ducts.30f t For ‘ Sankshobhat ’ some texts read ‘Santapat’. Both imply the same thing, viz excessive mental agitation. — T.

* ‘ From suppression of urine’, i. e., delay in answering calls of nature. — T.