Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

In consequence of inequalities (in their measure or degree), the •wind and the rest, becoming inharmonious, obstruct the ducts of £he blood and the other ingredients (of the body), and brings about the ••disease (phthisis).

The ingredients of the body do not, in consequence, grow. 27

Catarrh in the nose, spitting of phlegm, cough, vomiting, disgust Cor food, pains in the shoulders, spitting of blood, pains in the flanks, headache, and hoarseness of voice, — these symptoms, it should be •known, are caused by (excited) phlegm, bile, and wind.z8-29

These are the one and ten kinds of symptoms, arising from the •causes (mentioned) of that king of diseases which is characterised ifcy a collection of ailments.

The four kinds of causes also have been laid down.

The incubatory symptoms are catarrh in the nose, weakness.

* Gangadhara reads ‘mahagraha’ at the end of verse 24. Other texts have ‘angahrit’. The sense is the same. — T.

t ‘Vishaman,’ as an adjective of ‘amayan’ (in the second line), means ‘characterised by hostile symptoms,’ so that if the physician seeks to alleviate one symptom, another becomes aggravated. — T.

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