འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.24

4.24

“ ‘Know that the months are divided into threes,
And that pairs of months are taught.
Food and drink are digested accordingly.
Thus the physicians teach humors and time.

“ ‘The faculties and the humors
Are in groups within each year.
It is when the faculties transform
That various illnesses arise in beings.

“ ‘Know that the physician must be skilled
In the groups of three and four months,
The six times and the six humors,
And the food, drink, and medicines that correspond.

“ ‘Illness that is primarily air arises in the summer.³⁵⁵
That which arises in the autumn is the movement of bile.
Similarly, during the time of winter it is the aggregation,
And illness that is primarily phlegm arises in spring.³⁵⁶

“ ‘In summer: oily, warm, salty, and sour tastes;
In autumn: the sweet, the oily, and the cool;
In winter: the sweet, the oily, and the sour;
And in the time of spring, the astringent, pungent, and bitter.³⁵⁷

“ ‘That which is primarily phlegm arises immediately after eating.
That which is primarily bile arises during digestion.
That which is primarily air arises immediately after digestion.
That which is the movement of all three humors is like that.

“ ‘That which has the nature of air is healed by nutrition.
Laxative medicines are what dispel bile illness.
Aggregate illnesses will accord with all three.
For the class of phlegm, give emetic medicines.

“ ‘Know the groups that are primarily
Air, bile, aggregation, or phlegm.
Rely upon the medicines, food, and drink
For whichever time, humor, and body.’

“Jalavāhana, the head merchant’s son, through just this inquiry into skill in the humors became learned in all the eight branches of the Āyurveda.

“Noble goddess, at that time, in that time, Jalavāhana, the head merchant’s son, went throughout all the villages, towns, market towns, countryside, realm, and the royal capital in the kingdom of King Sureśvara­prabha, and he said, ‘I will be a doctor for you many hundreds of thousands of beings who are afflicted by various illnesses and tormented by various illnesses.