Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Abstention from food is the foremost of all things that lead to reduction of the period of life.
Abstemiousness in diet ( viz., eating without fully gratifying hunger ) is the foremost of all things that lead to thinness of the body. Eating before the food previously taken has been digested is the foremost of all things that lead to diseases of the Grahani.
Irregularity of diet ( viz., eating excessively at one time and abstemiously at another ) is the foremost of all things that lead to loss of the digestive fire.
Eating food made up of inharmonious ingredients ( such as ^P'T^tW/faiilk^ is the foremost of all things that lead to digusting and / repuisive diseases.
charara-samhitA.
p. 285
Abstention from desire and other impulses of the mind is the foremost of all regimens for the physical system.
Exertion is the foremost of all things that are baneful to the system.53
Injudicious correlation (of objects and the senses) is the foremost of all causes of disease.
Sexual intercourse with a woman in her season of impurity is the foremost of all causes that bring about adversity and distress.
The observance of the Brahmacharyya mode of life is the foremost of all things that induce longevity.*
The thought of sexual congress is the foremost of all remedies for increasing virility.
Cheerlessness is the foremost of all things that are destruc¬ tive of virility.
Exertion requiring the injudicious exercise of strength is the foremost of all things that induce shortness of life.
Continued melancholy is the foremost of all things that in¬ crease the violence of disease.
Bath ( in cool and pure water ) is the foremost of all things that dispel fatigue.
Cheerfulness is the foremost of all things that gladden the mind.
Sorrow is the foremost of all things that waste or dry up the body.
* By 1 Brahmacharyya’ is meant the celebate life a youth leads while living in the abode of his preceptor for study. The word, however, is used also to signify celebate existence or abstention from sexual congress in thought, word, and deed, with the observance of certain acts of piety. In some places, the mere abstention from sexual congress during the season of impurity is implied by Brahmacharyya.— T.
p. 280
CHA RA RA-SA MH1 TA .
Contentment is the foremost of all things that contribute to nourishment or growth of the physical system. Nourishment or growth of the sytem is the foremost of all things that induce sleep.
Sleep is the foremost of all things that make the system drowsy.64
The enjoyment of all the tastes is the Foremost of all things that contribute to increase of strength.
The enjoyment of only one kind of taste is the foremost of all things that weaken the system.
Obstetric obstruction is the foremost of all things that deserve to be got rid of.
Indigested food is the foremost of all things that deserve to be expelled out.
Infants are the foremost of those that should be treated with medicines that are mild ( in respect of both dose and kind.)
Old men are the foremost of those whose diseases deserve to be suppressed (without being cured if incurable or very difficult of cure).*
A woman during the period of gestation is the foremost of all persons for whom virulent remedies and physical exercises should never be prescribed.
Cheerfulness is the foremost of all causes that lead to concep¬ tion (by women ).
The excitement or provocation of all the faults together is the foremost of all diseases that are difficult of cure.
* Certain diseases are called ‘ Yapya’ (vide note in p. 109). What is stated here is this : When an old man falls ill, what is necessary for the physician to do is any how to give relief by suppressing the strength of the disease without seeking to accomplish a radical cure which may be difficult, or impossible, or which may be unnecessary in consequence of the long period that it is likely to take.— T.
CHA RAllA-SA MHITA .
p. 287
Indigestion and other faults in the stomach are the foremost of all diseases that require inharmonious treatment,*
Fever is the foremost of all diseases. Leprosy is the fore¬ most of all long-continuing diseases.
Phthisis ( with cavity in the lungs ) is the foremost of all complicated diseases.
Diabetes is the foremost of all obstinate diseases.f
Leeches are the foremost of all things used as subsidiary intruments for surgical operation.*
The application of the enema or administration of enemata is the foremost of the five operations or administrations resorted to for corrective treatment.
The Himavat mountains are the foremost of all places from which drugs are gathered.
A dry and arid province is the foremost of all sanitaria.
The Soma is the foremost of all medicinal herbs.
A marshy tract is the foremost of all unhealthy places.
Obedience to the injunctions of the physican is the. foremost of the patient’s merits.
The physician is the foremost of all the necessaries of treatment.
The atheist is the foremost of all persons that deserve to be avoided.
Cupidity or covetousness is the foremost of all things that cause distress.
* What is meant by inharmonious treatment is the administration of warm or heatproducing medicines when the system apparently wants coolness. This has been made clear later on.— T.
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