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Principle
Seats of disease
रोगों के अधिष्ठान · रोगाधिष्ठान
The sages are said to name eight seats of disease: skin, vessels (sira), bone, joints, arteries (dhamani), the abdominal organs such as stomach, intestines, liver and spleen, vital points…
Topic
Causes, signs and seats of disease
रोगों के कारण, लक्षण और अधिष्ठान · रोग के कारण लक्षणाधिष्ठान
Names six causes of disease (vata, pitta, kapha, blood, sannipata and injury), five kinds of signs for diseases not caused by injury, and eight seats of disease: skin, vessels, bone,…
Topic
Seats of eye diseases
नेत्ररोगों के आश्रय · नेत्र रोगों के आश्रय
Eye diseases have three kinds of seats in the eye: the circles (mandala), the junctions (sandhi) and the layers (patala), numbering five, six and six respectively.
Question
What are the seats of eye diseases and how many of each are there?
नेत्ररोगों के आश्रय कौन-से हैं और प्रत्येक कितने हैं?
Five circles (mandala), six junctions (sandhi) and six layers (patala).
Principle
Ayurveda (science of life)
आयुर्वेद
The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…
Condition
Eye disorders (netraroga)
नेत्ररोग (आंख के रोग) · नेत्ररोग
The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.
Condition
Fever (jvara)
ज्वर (बुखार) · ज्वर
Fever is said to arise when the doshas, aggravated by wrong diet, other diseases, season, wrong conduct or injury, spread through the whole body. Its general signs and prodromes, its vata,…
Condition
Poisoning (visha)
विष (ज़हर) · विषरोग
The opening of chapter 19 treats poisoning as a danger to kings: who poisons, how a poisoner and poisoned food are recognised, and the signs of poison in food, drinks and personal articles.
Topic
Sites of mouth diseases
मुखरोगों के स्थान
The mouth has seven seats of disease, counted as the two lips, the teeth, tongue, roots of the teeth (gums), throat and palate; dosha-born disorders arise in all of them.
Therapy
Therapeutic purgation (virechana)
विरेचन (जुलाब) · विरेचन
Purgation is said to sharpen the sight, strengthen the senses, increase intelligence, bodily strength and the digestive fire, prolong life and remove diseases from faults of stool and…
Principle
Tridosha (three doshas)
त्रिदोष सिद्धांत · त्रिदोष
The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…
Topic
Invocation
मंगलाचरण
Bowing to the Tirthankaras from Vrishabha to Mahavira, who teach the path of dharma that carries one across the ocean of worldly life, the author promises to describe the causes, signs and…