Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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The characteristics of diseases that are easily curable are as follows. When the causes, premonitory indications, and present symptoms are slight ; when the derangement lias no sympathy with the inducing causes of the disease, when the derangement that has brought about the disease is not capable of being aggravated by the constitution of the patient; when the inducing derangement is not sympathetic with the virtues of the season in which the disease has appeared ; when the treatment does not become difficult in conse¬ quence of the place where the disease occurs ; when the part affect¬ ed by the disease is one ; when it is new ; when the disease is free from violent symptoms ; when the derangement that has caused the disease is concerned with only one (of the three, viz., wind, bile, and phlegm) ; when the body is such that it is capable of bear¬ ing all kinds of medicines ; and lastly, when all the four requisites are present ; diseases are said to be easily curable.*5-7
The characteristics of diseases that are curable with difficulty are as follows : when the causes, premonitory indications, and pre¬ sent symptoms, are of force neither slight nor very grave ; when any of these, viz-, the season of the disease, its nature, and the character of those ingredients of the body which are known by the name of Dushya, is sympathetic with the derangement that headache or sleeplessness before an attack of fever. ‘ When the symptoms are slight,’ _ such as absence of thirst and great heat 'in a fever. ‘ When the derangement has no sympathy with the inducing causes &c.,’ — such as derangements of the blood not brought about by disorders of bile. ‘ When the inducing derangement is not capable of being aggravated by the constitution of the patient,’— such as attacks of cold in any but phlegmatic constitutions. ‘ Inducing derangement not sympathetic with the season in which the disease appears’; season, here, refers to the time of the year as also to the age of the patient. ‘ When treatment does not become difficult in consequence of the place of the disease,’ — place refers to both the division of the country and the particular part of the body. Treatment becomes difficult in a part of the country where there are no physicians. In all internal complaints again treatment becomes difficult. Then again in diseases of the wind, a dry desert is unfavorable, or in those of phlegm marshy tracts are so. ‘ When the part affected by the disease is one,’ — the parts subject to disease are treated of in the next Lesson. All afflicting or violent symptoms are called ‘upadravah,’ such as great restlessness and burning thirst in fever. — T.
* ‘ When the causes are slight,’— such as a little exposure to cold or rain bringing on a fever. ‘When the premonitory indications are slight,’ -such as the absence of
CHAR A KA-SAMHITA .
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induces the disease ; when the disease appertains to an elderly woman, an old man, and an infant ; when the disease is not characterised by excessively violent symptoms ; when the disease is such that it should be treated with the aid of operations by (surgical) instruments, by caustic alkali, and by fire ; when the disease is chronic ; when the disease, affecting some vital limb or some joint of the body, affects only one part; when the four prin¬ cipal requisites of treatment are wanting in some particular and the disease affects two parts; when the disease is not very old; and lastly when the disease has been induced by a double derange¬ ment ; such diseases should be known as curable with difficulty. Even diseases that are incurable in consequence of the exhaustion of one’s allotted period of life may be kept in a suppressed state by means of regulated diet and (proper) nursing.*8-11
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