Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- लक्षणरूपलिङ्ग
- Hindi
- लक्षणनिशानी
- English
- Signs and symptomssignssymptomslakshana
- Romanized
- lakshana
What the text says
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Classification2
The introduction says the signs must be examined with deep, fine and discerning attention. Signs are of two kinds, those known through feeling, by the mind, and bodily ones; they arise from the friction between the doṣa substances and the sustaining dhātus, and mental signs arise in the same way. In new diseases the signs show quickly and the patient can state them at once, but in chronic diseases they are hidden and hard even for the patient to grasp, so they should be found out by trials of what suits (upaśaya) and what does not (anupaśaya).
Diseases other than those caused by injury are said to show five kinds of signs; the commentary's parenthesis names vata, pitta, kapha and sannipata.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Categories
- Diagnosis
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Front matterChapter 20
- Extraction tasks
- T01, T22
- Record id
- concept_lakshana