[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) › 3.3 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 3.3 Bheḷasaṃhitā 3.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.1) |.. |.. yasya bhuktaṃ vipacyate | bhuñjānasyāpi cānnāni balaṃ varṇaś ca hīyate || > \[...\] in whom what is eaten is over-digested, / and whose strength and complexion decline even while eating foods— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.2) alpaṃ laghvapi yaccānnaṃ bhuktaṃ duḥkhena jīryati | nāpnoti balavarṇau ca durbalāgniḥ sa ucyate || > and food eaten, even if small in amount and light, digests with difficulty, / and he does not obtain strength and complexion: he is said to have a weak digestive fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.3) kadācitpacyate bhuktaṃ kadācinna vipacyate | guru vā laghu vā yasya viṣamāgniḥ sa ucyate || > In whom what is eaten sometimes digests and sometimes does not digest, / whether heavy or light: he is said to have an irregular digestive fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.4) mitaṃ pacyetayasyānnamatibhuktaṃ na pacyate | samāgniṃ taṃ naraṃ vidyāt samapittakaphānilam || > In whom measured food digests, and what is eaten in excess does not digest: / one should know that man to have a balanced digestive fire, having balanced bile, phlegm, and wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.5) naro bhavati tīkṣṇāgniḥ prakṛtyā vātapaittikaḥ | vātiko viṣamāgniśca, mandāgniś ca kaphān naraḥ || > A man of wind-bile constitution becomes sharp in digestive fire by constitution; / a wind-constitution \[man\] has an irregular digestive fire, and from phlegm a man has a slow digestive fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.6) yasya hīnādhikas tv agniḥ kṣipraṃ dehaṃ sa muñcati | samāgniś ca samātmā yaḥ sadīrghāyuṣṭvamṛcchati || > He whose digestive fire is deficient or excessive abandons the body quickly; / and he who has a balanced digestive fire and a balanced constitution attains long life. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.7) gavyamāhiṣavārāhaiḥ kulīrairmatsyakarkaṭaiḥ | māṃsaissapalalaiḥ snigdhairatyagniṃ pratibhojayet || > With beef, buffalo meat, and pork, with land crabs, fish, and freshwater crabs, / with unctuous meats accompanied by sesamum paste, one should counter an excessive digestive fire by feeding. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.8) godhāniṣkvathite kṣīresiddhaṃ bhuñjīta pāyasam | pibeddadhi sasarpiṣkaṃ māṣasūpena miśritam || > One should eat pāyasa prepared in milk boiled down with monitor lizard; / one should drink curd with clarified butter, mixed with māṣa pulse soup, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.9) tathā palalasammiśraṃ kacchapāṇḍarasaṃ pibet | guḍaṃ ca tailasammiśraṃ kuryād anyac ca taddhitam || > likewise one should drink the fluid of turtle eggs mixed with sesamum paste; / and one should prepare jaggery mixed with oil, and whatever else is wholesome for that. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.10) snigdhasyaviṣamāgnes tu vamanādīni kārayet | grahaṇīdūṣaṇīyoktaṃmandāgnes tu cikitsitam || > For one with an irregular digestive fire who has been unctuated, one should administer emesis and the rest; / and the treatment taught for the disorder of the grahaṇī is for one with a slow digestive fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.11) antarauṣadhapānānibahirlepe ca yā kriyā | śastrakarmavidhānaṃ ca bheṣajaṃ trividhaṃ smṛtam || > Internal medicinal drinks, external application by plastering, / and surgical procedures: medicine is remembered as threefold. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.12) madhuro ' mlaḥ kaṭuś caivapaktimārgāstrayaḥ smṛtāḥ | kaṭur bhavati pakvasya pacyamānasya cetarau || > Sweet, sour, and pungent: these are remembered as the three stages of digestion. / Pungent is of the digested \[state\], and the other two are of that which is undergoing digestion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.13) ihānnapānaṃ bhojyaṃ ca madhurāmlaṃ pracakṣate | vātajeṣu vikāreṣu yadā vā tairna śāmyati || > In this system they declare food and drink to be sweet and sour / in disorders born of wind; or when \[the disorder\] is not pacified by these, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.14) dadyādathāsmai snigdhāya bhiṣak snehavirecanam | vastibhir vā cikitsetahyadhobhāge ca mārutaḥ || > the physician should then administer unctuous purgation to him when he has been unctuated, / or he should treat him with enemas, for wind resides in the lower part \[of the body\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.15) tathā ca tiktamadhuraṃ pānamannaṃ pradāpayet | paittikeṣu vikāreṣu yadivātanna śāmyati || > And likewise one should cause bitter and sweet food and drink to be given / in disorders born of bile; or if it is not pacified by that, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.16) tasya snigdhasya vamanaṃ śirasaś ca virecanam | kuryād yathābalaṃ śleṣmā hyūrdhvabhāgaprakīrtitaḥ || > one should administer emesis and head-purgation to him when unctuated, / according to his strength, for phlegm is declared to belong to the upper part \[of the body\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.17) śakṛnmūtrānilāś caiva raktamāṃsādayaś ca ṣaṭ | vidyānnibandhanānīti tāni deheṣu dehinām || > Feces, urine, and wind, and the six beginning with blood and muscle: / one should know these as the sustaining elements in the bodies of embodied beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.18) balaṃ vayaḥ śarīraṃ ca pratyekaṃ trividhaṃ smṛtam | uttamādhamamadhyaṃ tu bhedenātha niśāmayet || > Strength, age, and body are each remembered as threefold; / one should observe them through the division of superior, inferior, and middling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3.19) āhāraś ca vihāraś ca sevyamānau krameṇa tu | kālena prakṛtiṃ yātas tad āhuḥ sātmyalakṣaṇam || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele vimāne tṛtīyo ' dhyāyaḥ || || caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto rogaprakṛtiviniścayaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > Diet and conduct, when practiced gradually over time, / attain the state of natural constitution; this they call the characteristic of wholesomeness. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / In the Section on Specific Determination of Bhela, the third chapter. / / The fourth chapter. / Now we shall explain the ascertainment of the nature of diseases, so said the venerable Ātreya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.3.3.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.3.3) · Pramāṇa