The Compendium of Bheḷa 2.2

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2.2.1

Then, from chest trauma, fever and cough arise in him; / his voice fails, and he spits blood.

2.2.2

Or rather, helpless, the person continually wastes away; / by these characteristics one should recognise consumption originating from overexertion.

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As long as he is strong, one should nourish him just so long, / because the life of a person in this world depends on strength.

2.2.4

When a man, among his elders or in an assembly of a king, / in a cowshed, in the presence of women or gamblers, on the back of an elephant, or on a chariot,

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out of fear, situational decorum, shame, or disgust, / suppresses feces or urine that has arrived and is ready to fall,

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due to that suppression, wind stirred up in the upper region / then produces chest pain, flank pain, and an abdominal lump.

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Caused by the arising of the abdominal lump, fever and cough occur; / his voice breaks, and he spits foul-smelling sputum.

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Or rather, helpless, the person continually wastes away; / by these characteristics one should recognise consumption caused by suppression.

2.2.9

A person feels shame for his own sake before an elder or women; / therefore, for the sake of oneself, one should not hold back an urge that has arrived.

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When a weak person, eating very little or emaciated, / especially one who eats dry food, indulges excessively in women,

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the person passes blood-stained urine due to the exhaustion of semen, / and the wind rushes into his hollowed receptacle of semen.

2.2.12

Overcome by wind, fever and cough arise in him; / his voice fails, and he spits blood.

2.2.13

Or rather, helpless, the person continually wastes away; / by these characteristics one should recognise consumption born of excessive sexual intercourse.

2.2.14

For the body has sexual pleasure as its root, and sexual pleasure is the fruit of the body; / therefore, desiring the fruit for the sake of the root, one should resort to women with moderation.

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When a weak person engages in irregular eating, / as he eats irregularly, his tissues fall into disharmony.

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Then food only increases feces in him; / the embodied being does not obtain chyle in the body, like one who is impaired.

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When chyle ceases, fever and cough then arise in him; / his voice fails, and he spits blood.

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Or rather, helpless, the person continually wastes away; / by these characteristics one should recognise consumption born of irregular eating.

2.2.19

Since one desiring [health] wishes for wholesome food with chyle for the sake of the body, / therefore, out of regard for the body, one should manage one's diet very well.

"Thus the four sources of consumptive wasting have been spoken by me, / which a man in this world, desiring health, should avoid once he understands them; / and health is dependent on understanding: this has been stated by the great sage."
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.
Thus ends the second chapter in the Nidāna section of Bheḷa.
Third Chapter.
Now we shall explain the diagnosis of gulma; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.

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Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit