The Compendium of Bheḷa 2.7

English (machine translation) 2.7

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2.7.1

A person who is always of phlegmatic constitution, who resorts to phlegm-producing food / and indulges in day-sleep—his phlegm increases.

2.7.2

Increased, [moving] upward from the heart and seizing the ten vessels, / obstructing the channel that carries consciousness, it then causes consciousness to be lost.

2.7.3

Deprived of consciousness, that person performs various strange actions: / singing and dancing in one spot, now laughing, and now weeping.

2.7.4

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.

2.7.5

He, however, who consumes all this that provokes the doṣas as described, / incurs insanity from combination [of doṣas], having all the symptoms.

2.7.6

When, through loss of wealth or the death of a loved one, / he then broods, his consciousness is lost through grief.

2.7.7

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.

2.7.8

One should recognize all these insanities indeed as curable; / for having lost his consciousness, he regains his normal state only with difficulty.

2.7.9

Thus the body-born doṣas situated within the body / harm the body itself, just as fire [harms] its own resting place.

2.7.10

Neither spirits harm [them], nor piśācas, nor rākṣasas; / likewise, the gods of righteous conduct are indifferent towards human beings.

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.

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Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit