[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) › [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt) › 5.6 # The Compendium of Caraka 5.6 English (machine translation) 5.6 - **Language:** English ### [5.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.1) Now we shall explain the Indriya concerning 'Which Bodies \[Are Incurable\]'. ### [5.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.2) Thus declared the venerable Ātreya. ### [5.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.3) Which diseased bodies, O great sage, should the physician avoid, in which treatment does not succeed? ### [5.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.4) Thus questioned by Agniveśa with a question exceedingly hard to answer, as the venerable Ātreya declared it to him, so understand: ### [5.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.5) For whom, while speaking, the upper chest aches severely, and eaten food slips away, or even remaining is not digested; ### [5.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.6) And whose strength quickly wanes, whose thirst greatly increases, and in whose heart colic arises: him the physician should avoid. ### [5.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.7) Whose hiccup arises from the depths and who passes blood in diarrhea: one should not give him medicine, remembering the teaching of Ātreya. ### [5.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.8) Abdominal distension and diarrhea: which weak, diseased man these two diseases enter, for him life is hard to obtain. ### [5.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.9) Abdominal distension and excessive thirst: which weak man these two enter, the vital breaths abandon this man before long. ### [5.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.10) Whose fever occurs in the forenoon and who has severe dry cough, deprived of strength and flesh: he is just like a corpse. ### [5.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.11) Whose urine and feces come forth in hard lumps, who is devoid of heat, suffering from abdominal enlargement, and panting: he does not live. ### [5.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.12) Whose swelling situated in the belly spreads to the hands and feet, after causing grief to his assembly of kinsmen, he is destroyed by that disease. ### [5.6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.13) Whose swelling is located in the feet, and whose calf muscles droop, and both of whose shanks collapse: him the physician should avoid. ### [5.6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.14) A man with swollen hands, swollen feet, swollen genitals, and swollen belly, deprived of complexion, strength, and food: one should not treat him with medicines. ### [5.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.15) From whose chest much phlegm—blue, yellow, and blood-streaked— continuously discharges: him one should avoid from afar. ### [5.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.16) With hair standing on end, thick urine, swollen, afflicted with cough and fever, wasted in flesh: such a man should be avoided from afar by a discerning physician. ### [5.6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.17) Whose three doṣas are aggravated and marked by distress, who is emaciated and devoid of strength: for him there is no treatment. ### [5.6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.18) Fever and diarrhea at the end of swelling, or swelling upon the cessation of those two, occurs especially to the end of a weak man. ### [5.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.19) Pale, exceedingly emaciated, overcome by thirst, with a resonant belly, his breath agitated: he should be refused by the discerning physician. ### [5.6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.20) Stiffness of jaws and carotid vessels, thirst, extreme reduction of strength, and whose vital breaths dwell \[only\] in the chest: him one should avoid. ### [5.6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.21) He faints, stretches out, and finds no comfort whatsoever; wasted of flesh, strength, and food, the man is about to die before long. ### [5.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.22) Whose dreadful diseases, having incompatible origins and incompatible treatments, increase greatly: he is killed quickly, quickly. ### [5.6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.23) Whose strength, consciousness, health, digestion, flesh, and blood— these waste away: he is killed swiftly, swiftly. ### [5.6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.24) Whose health fails, whose constitution deteriorates: suddenly, suddenly death snatches away his life. ### [5.6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.25) Here is a verse: ### [5.6.25\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.25_1) Thus one should avoid these diseased bodies; for the wise see no success whatsoever in them through treatment. ### [5.6.25\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6.25_2) Thus ends the sixth chapter, named 'Sense Faculty on Which Bodies', in the Indriyasthāna of the compendium composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //6 ## Linked texts (1) - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.6.1) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.6) · Pramāṇa