Diagnosis of epilepsy

As one who falls into water fears that life is leaving and loses memory with fainting, so in apasmara there is deadly fear, fainting and loss of memory, hence the name. Though from all three doshas, vata predominates; at the onset the patient sees black, green (or yellow) or white forms in the vata, pitta and kapha types and falls at once, gnashes his teeth, vomits phlegm, breathes and stares upward and cries out loudly. Like Yama it carries the marks of death, and the person lives on with great difficulty, dying again and again.