The Compendium of Bheḷa 2.8

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2.8.1

From wind, from bile, from phlegm, and likewise from a combination [of them], / epilepsies arise here; I shall state their characteristics.

2.8.2

A person who is always of windy constitution, who resorts to wind-producing food / and also indulges in physical exercise—his wind becomes provoked.

2.8.3

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

2.8.4

Deprived of consciousness, he falls down, chatters his teeth, / opens wide his eyes, and casts his brows about.

2.8.5

If, having returned to consciousness, having gone beyond the darkness, he should say: / 'And the world appears black to me, and shattered in pieces,'

2.8.6

then the wind rushes thus upward to the heart, obstructing the stool. / By these characteristics, one should know epilepsy born of wind.

2.8.7

A person who is always of bilious constitution, who resorts to bile-producing food / and exposes himself to fire and sunshine—his bile increases.

2.8.8

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

2.8.9

Deprived of consciousness, he falls down, chatters his teeth, / opens wide his eyes, and raises his brows.

2.8.10

If, having returned to consciousness, having gone beyond the darkness, he should say: / 'And the world appears white to me, and shattered in pieces,'

2.8.11

then phlegm rushes thus upward to the heart, obstructing the stool. / By these characteristics, one should know epilepsy of the nature of phlegm.

2.8.12

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

2.8.13

Thus, when wind and the others have increased here through unwholesome tastes, / a living being does not suffer epilepsy nor is he struck down by spirits [otherwise].

2.8.14

Whenever the doṣas swell like the ocean on the lunar conjunctions, / then he suffers epilepsy; he is not afflicted continuously.

2.8.15

Of fever, consumption, and abdominal lump, of those who cough and those with skin disease, / of those with obstinate urinary disorders, of those with insanity, and likewise of those with epilepsy:

thus eight etiologies of embodied beings have been declared. / I shall explain the specific determinations properly in succession. Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the eighth chapter in Bheḷa. / Thus ends the Section on Etiology in the Compendium of Bheḷa. / Section on Specific Determination. / First chapter. / Now we shall explain the specific determination of tastes; thus said the venerable Ātreya.

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Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit