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Study question (generated from the text)
Balanced fire digests a proper meal properly; irregular fire (from vāta) sometimes digests it and sometimes not; sharp fire (from pitta) digests even an excessive meal; weak fire (from kapha) cannot digest even a small one. The text pairs enema therapy, purgation, and emesis with nasal therapy with the vāta, pitta and kapha types in that order.
Detailed answer
Verse 11 asks the physician to judge whether a person's fire is balanced, irregular or weak; verse 12 says disordered fire is threefold, irregular from vāta, sharp from pitta and weak from kapha, and its footnotes give the definitions. Verse 13 pairs enema, purgation and emesis with nasal therapy with these in order, and verse 14 says balanced fire is protected by seasonal food and by enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods; a footnote defines balanced fire. These are purification procedures that the text assigns to the physician.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 2
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- qa_T02_06