The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.26

Now one should specify here eight abdominal diseases and retention of urine, / six glass-like vision defects, blindnesses, and cataracts,

Hiccups, dyspnoeas, coughs, baldness, and premature graying, / head diseases, tumors, phantom tumors, vomitings, and then fistulae-in-ano,

Insanities, mouth diseases, and the seats of fasting, / and glandular swellings are five each, and one should specify eight obstinate skin diseases.

Heart diseases, anemia disorders, and discharges, likewise swellings, / chronic discharges, adhimanthas, and also the varieties of impotence;

Eye diseases, epilepsies, and blood-rohiṇikā, / thirsts, and chancres—one should specify these groups of four;

Back diseases, fevers, and hemorrhoids, likewise bleeding diseases and wounds, / are two each; but abscesses, alajīs, and bloods are three each;

Semens, elephantiasis, and armans—one should specify seven each; / obstinate urinary disorders, classes of parasites, and vaginal disorders are twenty.

There the eight abdominal diseases have been explained in the therapeutics [section]; / but the diseases as they are stated along with their etiology, learn them from me.

Reddish, dark blue, yellow, green, white, and red; / one should specify glass-like vision defect, blindness, and cataracts.

When wind, bile, or phlegm runs upward to the head of a person, / burning the roots [of hair] and assailing the channels,

Due to traveling, excessive strain, or old age in embodied beings, / then baldness or premature graying occurs in five ways.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, likewise arising from flesh, / and one arising from fat—one should specify the tumor separately as fifth.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three, / and the fifth exogenous—thus they describe mouth disease.

Camel's-neck, discharging, and snail's-spiral, / aberrant-routed, and hundred-openings—likewise one should know fistula-in-ano.

One vomits due to wind, and due to bile, and due to phlegm, / and due to unpleasant food, and a fifth from a combination of all three.

When the heart is enveloped by wind, bile, and phlegm, / a person does not partake of eatable food due to tastelessness and unpleasantness.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three; / the physician should know vein-ganglion, with the fifth arising from ligaments.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three; / the wise one should know chronic discharge and adhimantha.

From suppression of semen, from debility, and likewise from erectile failure, / and from exhaustion of semen—one should specify the four grounds of impotence.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three; / one should know the eye disease of humans to be of four kinds.

From pus, from urine, and from semen, and also from junction in embodied beings; / thus the physician should know chancre to be of four kinds.

Discharge of blood, discharge of phlegm, and likewise discharge of pus, / and discharge of water—thus the physician should know four kinds.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three; / thus the physician should know thirst also to be of four kinds.

Arising from wind, arising from bile, arising from phlegm, and arising from a combination of all three; / thus the physician should know rohiṇikā to be of four kinds.

Fleshy arman, fatty arman, and spreading arman, / and ligamentous arman—thus the physician should know [it] to be of four kinds.

Two fevers, burning and cold; somatic and exogenous wounds; / dry hemorrhoids and bleeding hemorrhoids—likewise they know hemorrhoids to be two.

One should specify two back diseases: upakṣārī and kṣāriṇī; / one should know the two convulsions: opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.

From fat, from ligaments, [and] from flesh are the three alajīs; / and three abscesses are remembered: from wind, from bile, and from phlegm.

[…] / from wind, from bile, from phlegm, from flesh, from fat, and also from ligaments,

The physician should know the arman arising from veins as the seventh in embodied beings. / One should know seven wholesome states, six of which are according to the tastes.

That which is wholesome for all things is called the foremost wholesomeness. / Soil-born, viviparous, levā, forms, multiforms,

Creepers, spreading ones, body-born, and eye-born, / hair-eaters, red ones, harsh ones, and dāruṇakas,

Head-born, and tooth-born, phlegm-born, residing in feces, / red ones, and black ones, and likewise śatamātṛkās—

One should know these twenty classes of parasites in embodied beings. / Just as a bird, however swift, does not outrun its own shadow, / so too numerous diseases do not exceed wind and the other [humors]. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus the twenty-sixth chapter in Bheḷa. / / Twenty-seventh chapter. / Now we shall explain the rule regarding food and drink; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.