法苑珠林 95.26

95.26

云何當知　四大諸根　衰損伐謝
而得諸病　云何當知　飲食時節
若食食已　身火不滅　云何當知
治風及熱　水過肺病　及以等分
何時動風　何時動熱　何時動水
以害眾生　時父長者　即以偈頌
解說醫方　而答其子　三月是夏
三月是秋　三月是冬　三月是春
是十二月　三三而說　從如是數
一歲四時　若二二說　足滿六時
三三本攝　二二現時　隨是時節
消息飲食　是能益身　醫方所說
隨時歲中　諸根四大　代謝增損
令身得病　有善醫師　隨順四時
三月將養　調和六大　隨病飲食
及以湯藥　多風病者　夏則發動
其熱病者　秋則發動　等分病者
冬則發動　其肺病者　春則增劇
有風病者　夏則應服　肥膩醎酢
及以熱食　有熱病者　秋服冷甜
等分冬服　甜酢肥膩　肺病春服
肥膩辛熱　飽食然後　則發肺病
於食消時　則發熱病　食消已後
則發風病　如是四大　隨三時發
病風羸損　補以蘇膩　熱病下藥
服呵梨勒　等病應服　三種妙藥
所謂甜辛　及以蘇膩　肺病應服
隨時吐藥　若風熱病　肺病等分
違時而發　應當任師　籌量隨病
飲食湯藥

"How should one know / The four great elements and all the sense organs / Waning, damaged, decaying, and exhausted, / Whereby various diseases arise? / How should one know / The timing and measures of food and drink, / So that after one eats food, / The body's fire is not extinguished? / How should one know / The treatments for wind and heat, / Excess of water and lung diseases, / As well as the balanced condition? / When does wind stir? / When does heat stir? / When does water stir, / To harm sentient beings?" / Then the father, the elder, / Immediately through verses / Explained the medical methods / To answer his son: / "Three months are summer, / Three months are autumn, / Three months are winter, / Three months are spring: / These twelve months / Are spoken of by threes. / From such a calculation / There are four seasons in a year; / If spoken of by twos, / They fill out six seasons. / The groups of three originally subsume them, / The groups of two show the seasons. / In accordance with these seasons, / Regulating food and drink / Can benefit the body. / As medical treatises state, / In accordance with the seasons of the year, / The faculties and four great elements / Alternate, increase, and decrease, / Causing the body to fall ill. / A good physician / Accords with the four seasons, / Nurturing across the three months, / Harmonizing the six elements, / Providing food and drink according to illness, / As well as broths and medicines. / Those with many wind diseases / Have them flare up in summer; / Those with heat diseases / Have them flare up in autumn; / Those with balanced illnesses / Have them flare up in winter; / Those with lung diseases / Become more severe in spring. / Those with wind diseases / Should take in summer / Rich, oily, salty, and sour [foods], / Along with hot foods; / Those with heat diseases / Take cool and sweet in autumn; / For balanced illnesses, in winter take / Sweet, sour, rich, and oily; / For lung diseases, in spring take / Rich, oily, pungent, and hot. / After eating to fullness, / Lung disease is then triggered; / When food is being digested, / Heat disease is then triggered; / After food has been digested, / Wind disease is then triggered. / Thus the four great elements / Flare up according to the three periods. / For one weakened by wind disease, / Tonify with ghee and fats; / For heat disease, as a purgative / Take harītakī; / For balanced disease, one should take / Three kinds of wondrous medicines, / Namely sweet, pungent, / Along with ghee and fats; / For lung disease, one should take / An emetic according to the season. / If wind-heat diseases, / Lung diseases, and balanced diseases / Flare up out of season, / One should rely on a master / To calculate according to the illness / The food, drink, broths, and medicines."