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Principle
balance
साम्य
The verse says balance (sāmya) is a state of good calm; appetite, digestion and strength are its marks, wholesome and measured diet is its means, and strength is held to bring the…
Principle
Balanced agni (samagni)
समाग्नि
A footnote defines balanced fire as the fire that properly digests food taken in the proper amount.
Topic
On balance (sāmya)
साम्य का विचार · साम्य विचार
Balance (sāmya) is called a state of calm well-being; its signs are appetite, good digestion and sustained strength, its means is wholesome food in measured amounts, and strength makes the…
Topic
Protecting balanced digestive fire
समाग्नि की रक्षा के उपाय · समाग्नि के रक्षणोपाय
The wise physician should always protect balanced fire with food suited to the season and with enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods (trikāla). A footnote defines…
Procedure
Protecting balanced digestive fire
समाग्नि के रक्षणोपाय · समाग्निरक्षण
The text says the wise physician should always protect balanced digestive fire through food suited to the season and through enemas, purgation and emesis suited to the three periods…
Principle
Vikriti (state of imbalance)
विकृति
Topic
Means of bringing the thin body to balance
क्षीण शरीर को सम करने के उपाय · क्षीण शरीर को समकरणोपाय
For the thin, water is commended, and milk is to be given after meals; with nasal therapy, linctus, gargles and similar measures his digestive fire should always be protected.
Principle
Agni (digestive fire)
अग्नि (जठराग्नि) · जठराग्नि
The introduction says the digestion of the six tastes of food just eaten stimulates the pācaka pitta; in the āmāśaya the pācaka pitta and the kledaka kapha are released and gradually mix…
Principle
Health (svasthya)
स्वास्थ्य
The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…
Principle
Practical health (vyavahara svasthya)
व्यवहार स्वास्थ्य · व्यवहारस्वास्थ्य
The editor reports the author's definition of practical (vyāvahārika) health: balance in the body's seven dhātus, agni and the doṣas vāta, pitta and the rest, clarity of the senses, joy of…
Principle
Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
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…
Principle
Causes of disease (nidana)
निदान (रोग का कारण) · निदान
The publisher's note says that disease coming to the body depends on karma, but that by the use of the pure medicines described in the book even asātā (painful experience) turns into sātā…
Principle
Bowel nature (koshtha)
कोष्ठ (पेट की प्रकृति) · मृदुकोष्ठ
The bowel (koshtha) is said to be of three kinds: soft when pitta predominates, medium when kapha predominates and hard when vata predominates.
Principle
Prakriti (body constitution)
प्रकृति (शरीर प्रकृति) · प्रकृति
The introduction says prakṛti means keeping the body in its original state. The bīja dhātu is formed by the union of śukra (the male seed) and ārtava (the female seed), and the body is…
Principle
Types of land (desha)
देश (भूमि के प्रकार) · देश
The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.
Topic
The kinds of health
स्वास्थ्य के भेद
The editor reports the author's two kinds of health: ultimate (pāramārthika) health, the imperishable, supra-sensory bliss of the soul that comes from destroying the eight karmas, and…
Topic
Assessing the digestive fire
जठराग्नि का विचार
For people in youth and the later stages too, the physician should consider, according to the texts, whether the digestive fire is balanced, irregular or weak, and treat accordingly.
Topic
Benefits of the purifying bath
पवित्र स्नान के गुण · पवित्र स्नान गुण
Bathing is said to give contentment, nourishment, lustre, health and long life, purity and balance of the doshas, to kindle the digestive fire, remove lethargy and sleepiness, calm sin,…
Topic
Chapter 2 begins (Garbhotpattilakṣaṇa, signs of conception)
द्वितीय परिच्छेद का आरम्भ (गर्भोत्पत्तिलक्षण) · अथ द्वितीयः परिच्छेदः
Opening line of the second chapter, whose running head and colophon name it Garbhotpattilakṣaṇa. It treats the two kinds of health, balance, the stages of life, the digestive fire,…
Topic
Giving the purgative; the three kinds of bowel
विरेचक औषध देने की विधि और कोष्ठ के तीन प्रकार · विरेचक औषधदान विधि
On the next day, before sunrise, the physician considers whether the previous day's food has been digested and examines the patient's digestive power and the soft or hard nature of the…
Topic
How constitution arises
प्रकृति की उत्पत्ति
When the soul enters the mixture of semen and blood in the womb, the dosha that predominates in it at that moment forms the person's constitution: a pitta-predominant mass gives a child of…
Question
How does chapter 3 explain the origin of constitution (prakṛti), and what are some marks of the vāta, pitta and kapha types?
तृतीय परिच्छेद में प्रकृति की उत्पत्ति कैसे बताई गई है, और वात, पित्त व कफ प्रकृति के कुछ लक्षण क्या हैं?
Constitution is formed by the dosha that predominates when the soul enters the mixed semen and blood in the womb, and it is balanced if all three are equal. The vāta type is described as…
Question
How does the text distinguish the three kinds of land, and which disorders and treatment does it associate with each?
ग्रन्थ तीन प्रकार के देशों में क्या भेद करता है और प्रत्येक के साथ कौन से रोग और चिकित्सा जोड़ता है?
Dry land (jāṅgala), with thin, rough-bodied people, mostly has vāta disorders and calls for vāta-pacifying treatment; marshy land (ānūpa), with stout, kapha-predominant people, has vāta…