The Compendium of Caraka 5.1.3

5.1.3

Here, indeed, complexion, voice, smell, taste, touch, eye, ear, nose, tongue, skin, mind, disposition, cleanliness, conduct, behavior, memory, appearance, constitutional nature, pathological alteration, strength, debility, intellect, exhilaration, dryness, unctuousness, drowsiness, exertion, heaviness, lightness, bodily qualities, diet, regimen, digestion of food, expedient means, harm, disease, premonitory symptoms of disease, pain, complications, shadow, reflection, dreams, messenger's condition, omens on the road, condition and state of affairs in the patient's household, and the response to medicine and application of therapeutics—these are to be examined through direct perception, inference, and authoritative testimony by a physician seeking to know the remaining span of life.