An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. I: Sutrasthanam — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1907)
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It is cooling, oleaginous, and firm (Sthira), contributes to the formation and growth -of flesh, maintains its integrity or holds it firm, and is mobile or capable of moving about from one place to another within the organism. * It is further soft and shiny, and is possessed of the most efficacious virtue and should be regarded as the most important element (seat) of vitality. The whole body with its limbs and members is permeated with Ojas, and a loss or diminution in its natural quantity leads to the gradual emaciation (and ultimate dissolution) of organism.
A blow, a persistent wasting disease, anger, grief, cares and anxieties, fatigue and hunger, are the causes to which should be ascribed the wasting or disappearance of this strength-giving principle (albumen) of the body. The bodily albumen, through the agency of the abovesaid causes, is wasted through the channels carrying the different fundamental principles of the body. Albumen is transformed into strength which radiates from the heart.
A deranged or vitiated albumen (Ojas) is characterised firstly by its dislodgment from its proper seat or locality (Visransha), secondly, by a change or modification of its native virtues in contact with the deranged humours or disordered organs (Vyapad) and thiidly, by wasting away (Kshaya\
* Several editions read Rasam, meaning it to be possessed of a sweet taste.
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The first of the preceding properties (dislodgment) gives rise to such symptoms as looseness of the bone-joints, numbness of the hmbs, dislodgment of the deranged humours from their respective receptacles and suppression of the (bodily and intellectual) functions. To the second of the foregoing properties, (change or modification of its natural virtue through contact with the deranged bodily humours etc) should be ascribed such symptoms, as numbness and heaviness of the limbs, dropsy due to the action of the deranged bodily Vayu, discoloured or changed complexion, feeling of malaise, drowsiness and somnolence. The third property of the deranged albumen, loss or wasting), brings on fits of fainting, loss of flesh, stupor, delirium and ultimately death.
Authoritative verses on the subject:—A deranged state of albumen is marked by the three abovesaid properties of dislodgment from its proper seat (Visransha) ; by a change of its natural virtues through contamination (Vyapadi and by wasting (Kshaya . The first of these properties (Visransha) is characterised by looseness of the joints, by an inert state of the body, by a sense of fatigue, by a dislodgment of the deranged humours from their natural seats, and by a suppression of the bodily and intellectual functions. Numbness and heaviness of the limbs, malaise, a discoloured complexion, drowsiness,
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somnolence and dropsical swelling brought about by a deranged state ot t\\e bodily Vayu, should be considered as natural consequences of the Vyapad ^change of the natural virtues of albumen through contamination). The loss or waste of Ojah (albumen) is marked by such symptoms as fits of fainting, emaciation of the body, bewilderment and distraction of the mind, delirium and loss of consciousness and ultim?itely death.
The medical treatment in cases of dislodgment or flowing out external secretion) of albumen from its natural seat (Visransha), as well as in the event of it becoming contaminated by the vitiated principles of the body, should consist in improving its quantity by elixirs and remedies possessed of rejuvenating properties, tending to increase the quantity of such fluid (albumen 1 in the body. A patient who has lost all consciousness owing to an excessive loss or waste of albumen) should be given up by a physician as incurable\
The oily or albuminous matter found within the components of the other fundamental principles (Dhatu) of the body as metabolised by the internal heat and regularly metamorphosed into the succeeding ones) should be grouped under the head of fiery or thermogenetic (Agneya)) substances. This fatty matter iVas^'i predominates in the female organism and produces its peculiar softness,
134 ^^^ SUSHRUTA SAMHITA'. [Chap. XV.
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