The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.11

The fourfold food eaten by men, / being digested in two ways in the alimentary tract of the body, is known as chyle and waste.

The waste exits again in the forms of sweat, urine, and feces. / From the digestion of food, the essence, chyle, is produced for men.

From chyle, blood; from that, flesh; from flesh, fat; and from that, bone; / from bone, marrow; from that, semen; from semen arises the embryo.

Thus, tissue element proceeds from the preceding to the subsequent in order. / When [food] is eaten in proper dose and wholesomely, having attained the form of chyle,

it does not produce diseases in one with ignited digestive fire, arising from disorders of chyle; / then, under the influence of transformation, it attains the nature of blood and the rest.

In whichever tissue element it becomes abnormal, in that it then produces diseases: / cholera, alasaka, pitta-burning, vilambikā,

quotidian fever, continuous fever, tertian, and quartan, / pitta, bleeding disease, bleeding piles, pralepaka fever,

and cracked feet—these diseases they know to arise from disorders of chyle. / Scabies, carmadala, pāmā, skin warts, and eczema,

melasma, erysipelas, and skin diseases they know to arise from disorders of blood; / flesh-warts, tumors, swollen glands, ajakā, and jātula […],

putrid flesh, and alajī they know to arise from disorders of flesh. / Foul body odor, sweating, obesity, thirst, excessive sleep,

and also the twenty kinds of urinary disease (prameha) they know to arise from disorders of fat. / Tooth disease, falling off of nails, beard, hair of the head, and body hair,

or excessive growth of bones, they know to arise from disorders of bone. / Burning sensation, intoxication, insanity, convulsions,

seeing darkness, and fainting they know to arise from disorders of marrow. / Semen [resembling] alkali, fire, madder, indigo, or turmeric individually,

and ash-colored during urination, they know to arise from disorders of semen. / A man having a woman's voice, or a woman having a man's voice,

or premature discharge of the fetus, they know to arise from disorders of the fetus. / These arise from āma in human beings, having incompatible food and eating before digestion as their nature. / One should avoid incompatible food; this is the highest state of health. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the eleventh chapter in Bheḷa. / / Twelfth chapter / / / Now next we shall expound the chapter on Ātreya and Khaṇḍakāpya; thus said the venerable Ātreya.