[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [The Compendium of Bheḷa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela) › 2.7 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 2.7 Bheḷasaṃhitā 2.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.1) yassadā śleṣmalo jantuḥ śleṣmalaṃ bhajate ' śanam | sevate ca divāsvapnaṃ tasya śleṣmā pravardhate || > A person who is always of phlegmatic constitution, who resorts to phlegm-producing food / and indulges in day-sleep—his phlegm increases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.2) sa vṛddha ūrdhvaṃ hṛdayād gṛhītvā dhamanīrdaśa | ruddhvā cetovahaṃ mārgaṃ saṃjñāṃ bhraṃśayate tataḥ || > Increased, \[moving\] upward from the heart and seizing the ten vessels, / obstructing the channel that carries consciousness, it then causes consciousness to be lost. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.3) sa bhraṣṭasaṃjñaḥ puruṣastāni tāni viceṣṭate | gāyannṛtyati caikatra hasatyatha ca roditi || > Deprived of consciousness, that person performs various strange actions: / singing and dancing in one spot, now laughing, and now weeping. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.4) ekatrāste vinā lokaṃśete cāpi jaḍo yathā | janaṃbhīṣayate cāpi śleṣmonmādī pumāniha || > He sits alone away from people, and also lies down like an idiot; / he also terrifies people—such here is a man suffering from phlegm-insanity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.5) yas tv etat sarvamaśnāti yathoktaṃ doṣakopanam | sannipātāttathonmādaṃ sarvaliṅgaṃ sa ṛcchati || > He, however, who consumes all this that provokes the doṣas as described, / incurs insanity from combination \[of doṣas\], having all the symptoms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.6) sa yadā dhananāśena maraṇena priyasya vā | atha cintayate, tasya saṃjñā bhraśyati cintayā || > When, through loss of wealth or the death of a loved one, / he then broods, his consciousness is lost through grief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.7) sa cintayati yānbhāvāṃstāneva pralapatyatha | āgantuṃ pañcamaṃ vidyādity unmādaṃ śarīriṇām || > Whatever matters he broods upon, those very things he then babbles about; / one should know the fifth insanity of embodied beings to be of external origin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.8) sarvān etān vijānīyādunmādānvai cikitsitāt | duḥkhenasaṃjñābhraṣṭo hi prakṛtiṃ punar ṛcchati || > One should recognize all these insanities indeed as curable; / for having lost his consciousness, he regains his normal state only with difficulty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.9) evaṃ śarīrajā doṣāḥ śarīre paryavasthitāḥ | śarīram eva hiṃsanti pāvakaḥ svamivāśrayam || > Thus the body-born doṣas situated within the body / harm the body itself, just as fire \[harms\] its own resting place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.10) na hi satvāni hiṃsanti na piśācā na rākṣasāḥ | devās tathā dharmaśīlāḥ madhyasthā manujānprati || > Neither spirits harm \[them\], nor piśācas, nor rākṣasas; / likewise, the gods of righteous conduct are indifferent towards human beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7.11) vamane recane yuktonirūhe cānuvāsane | na jātu dāruṇān rogānunmādān prāpnuyān naraḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele nidāne saptamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || aṣṭamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto ' pasmāranidānaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > If a man is engaged in emesis, purging, non-unctuous enema, and unctuous enema, / he would never contract dread diseases such as insanities. Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the seventh chapter in the Nidāna of Bheḷa. / Eighth chapter. / Now we shall explain the etiology of epilepsy; thus said the venerable Ātreya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.2.7.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.2.7) · Pramāṇa