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Study question (generated from the text)
Medicine protects the health of the healthy and frees the sick from disease (chapter 1, verse 24). Health is ultimate (pāramārthika), the imperishable bliss of the soul, or practical (vyāvahārika), the balance of the dhātus, agni and doṣas with clear senses, a joyful mind and a disease-free body.
Detailed answer
The editor says medicine is composed to benefit the world and that the work treats both purposes in brief. Ultimate health is said to come from destroying the eight karmas; the author names the karma that brings pain (asātāvedanīya) as the main cause of ill health and doṣa imbalance as its outer cause.
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- Front matter
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- T01
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- qa_T01_06