[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) › [Hārītasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt) › 1.8 # Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.8 English (machine translation) 1.8 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.8.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.44) — 1 part ### [1.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.1) Now next the knowledge of age will be declared. / Age is said to be of four kinds: superior, inferior, middle, / and the fourth is declared as low; these I shall now declare. ### [1.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.2) Childhood, youth, old age, and likewise middle age: / fourfold is age properly declared; it will be told in brief. ### [1.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.3) One weary on the road, exhausted by exertion, a child, a woman, and a delicate person— / for these the designation 'middle' is declared in the medical tradition. ### [1.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.4) Up to sixteen years a person is a child; at twenty-five, a youth; / middle age is up to seventy; beyond that, one is called old. ### [1.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.5) And likewise the delicate are termed 'middle'; / but the period of life that exceeds sixteen years, ### [1.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.6) reaching up to twenty years, and one possessing an emaciated body, / or women who have attained full age: \[this is\] inferior age within the middle category. ### [1.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.7) Above twenty-five years up to fifty, a man / or a woman capable of hard work is regarded as of superior age. ### [1.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.8) Beyond twenty-seven years accompanied by fifty years \[i.e. up to seventy-seven\], / and one who has the growth of children \[or youth\]: this is superior age. ### [1.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.9) One who is stout, very tall, robust, and likewise a woman with large hips / who possesses superior limbs is to be known as the most superior. ### [1.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.10) Beyond sixty, reaching eighty years, is the age of diminished strength; / beyond that, it is to be known as the lowest of the low in the sequence of age. ### [1.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.11) Wasted, fatigued by travel, distressed, and afflicted by disease, / dry, and extremely emaciated is to be known as having suitability like a child. ### [1.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.12) A delicate person, one very timid, or women of medium body / should be known as having medium suitability, having the suitability of middle age. ### [1.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.13) A female child is recorded as up to five years, and an innocent girl up to six years; / she is recorded as a girl up to twelve years, and innocent up to the seventh \[year\]. ### [1.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.14) A mature young woman is at nine years, and bold at thirteen; / beyond twenty-four years, those at thirty-seven are intermediate; / women who have reached full age: this is superior age. ### [1.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.15) One of medium suitability may be stout, strong, and spirited; / and one of superior suitability should be treated as strong. ### [1.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.16) Now next I shall expound the excellent knowledge of bodily constitution: / born of vāta, born of pitta, born of śleṣman (kapha), and born of the confluence of all three. ### [1.8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.17) He who is dark-complexioned, restless, very slender, with sparse and dry hair, strong, enduring, / has small teeth, fast-growing nails, a deep voice, and endurance in walking; ### [1.8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.18) taking long strides, covetous, lacking mental strength, and likewise desirous of eating sour foods; / by sudation and not too vigorous massage, a vāta-type man attains ease. ### [1.8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.19) Fair, very tawny, delicate in form, pleased in the deep cold, with honey-tawny eyes, / sharp, easily provoked, fragile, fearful, soft, and having hairless limbs and body: ### [1.8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.20) Fond of fickle desires, eating bitter tastes, averse to sharp things and resorting to fresh and hot food, / fond of praise, having teeth of clear colour—such a person is born of pitta constitution. ### [1.8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.21) Having an unctuous complexion, satisfied with white eyes, dark-complexioned, with fine hair, nails and long body hair, / with a deep voice, fond of hearing scriptures, sleeping and drowsiness, eating bitter, pungent, and hot foods, ### [1.8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.22) muscular and fond of unctuous tastes, accompanied by singing and instrumental music, very enduring of cold, / habitual in exercise, lusting for sexual pleasure—such a person is of kapha constitution. ### [1.8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.23) Having a mixed complexion, with a very radiant body, deep and calm, with widely spaced body hair, / fond of women, bearing heavy burdens, highly balanced, endowed with enjoyment—this is balance of constitution. ### [1.8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.24) Now I declare the movement of the winds: eastern, as well as western, southern, and northern. / Listen to me declaring one by one their qualities and their provocation of the doṣas. ### [1.8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.25) Cold, possessed of an exceedingly sweet quality, when employed it provokes vāta and especially produces strength. / For those with an excess of vāta and those with wounds and swellings, the wind blowing from the east is not beneficial. ### [1.8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.26) Slightly bitter and endowed with sweetness, it produces diseases arising from kapha and wind; / it is very cool; for wounds accompanied by swelling, the south-eastern wind is not beneficial. ### [1.8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.27) Bitter, astringent, sweet, extremely gentle, excellent with qualities of fragrance and coldness, / they call it by the name 'Malaya breeze', which captivates the minds of excellent women. ### [1.8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.28) It is an increaser of love, a wind arising from kapha; it comes as an excellent breeze; / neither too cold nor hot, and auspicious is the wind originating from the south. ### [1.8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.29) The dry and hot wind is pacifying wind, causing vitiation in pungent and sour pitta and blood; / desiccant of bodily strength, wind endowed with kapha is the south-western breeze. ### [1.8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.30) Now, exceedingly subtle wind is praised; indeed, the wind arising from the western quarter, / as well as the wind that stirs up raktapitta, is beneficial for wounds or for swellings due to kapha. ### [1.8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.31) The wind arising from the north-west is praised, delightful with the qualities of astringency and dryness; / it brings vāta under control in humans, and is praised, not blamed, for those with wounds and swellings. ### [1.8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.32) Sweet, astringent, and provoking kapha is the wind blowing from the quarter of Kubera \[the north\]; / it causes the arrival of rainclouds, is cold, not hot, and is not blameworthy. ### [1.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.33) Cold, excessively sweet, provoking kapha and vāta is \[the wind\] blowing from the north-eastern direction; / and it is not beneficial for those with wounds, swellings, and cough, nor suitable for those afflicted by breathing disorders. ### [1.8.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.34) Cloth of various kinds, leather, bamboo, and palm-leaf fans, / uśīra grass, and peacock feathers: each has superior qualities. ### [1.8.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.35) Wind produced by cloth is not beneficial for those with wounds and swellings; / but one should especially avoid that generated from red cloth. ### [1.8.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.36) It causes provocation of kapha and blood, producing many diseases; / in fatigue, exhaustion, and thirst, it greatly causes drowsiness and sleep. ### [1.8.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.37) A bamboo fan also produces drowsiness and sleep; / it is dry, exceedingly astringent in taste, and does not provoke vāta. ### [1.8.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.38) Wind from a bronze vessel is dry, warm, and pacifies vāta; / it destroys burning sensation and fatigue, destroys sweat, and gives sleep and comfort to men. ### [1.8.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.39) A fan made of a palm leaf or a plantain leaf is cold, / sweet, highly fatigue-relieving, and provokes kapha on account of its moisture. ### [1.8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.40) It induces sleep, produces pleasure, removes the disorders of grief and disease, / destroys burning sensation, pitta, fatigue, and exhaustion, and pacifies vertigo. ### [1.8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.41) A fan fashioned from the root of uśīra grass and peacock feathers, / with such a fan, \[the breeze\] becomes fragrant and possessed of gentle, cold qualities. ### [1.8.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.42) It removes exhaustion, fainting, vertigo, desiccation, erysipelas, poison, and arrogance. / Thus wind is fivefold when artificially produced for humans. ### [1.8.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.43) In the cold season the wind blows from the east; the south-eastern wind blows in late autumn; / in spring the wind is southern; and in summer it is south-western. ### [1.8.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.44) In the rainy season the wind is western; in autumn it is remembered as north-western; / and in the cold season and in late autumn the northern wind is taught. ### [1.8.44.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.44.p1) The experts state that the rainy season is in the afternoon; the autumn is at midnight; the cold season is taught to be in the late night; then the dewy winter season precedes the sunrise; ### [1.8.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.45) and at midday, the experts state, the summer season occurs; / the spring season is always taught by the sages to be in the morning and forenoon. ### [1.8.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.46) In Kārtika or Mārgaśīrṣa, and in Māgha and that named Āṣāḍha, / and at the junction of the seasons in late autumn, the wind becomes poisonous. ### [1.8.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.47) In whichever city, countryside, village, or even unpopulated place / that intense wind touches cattle, humans, elephants, or horses, ### [1.8.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.48) one should know it produces tilaka among cattle, consumption among humans, / one should know pāvaka among elephants, and among horses it is called vedya. ### [1.8.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.49) Pitta must be guarded against in elephants, and kapha in horses at all times; / this wind must generally be guarded against in humans at all times. ### [1.8.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.50) Wind is provoked inside during the rains; absorbed in autumn, wind is provoked into pitta disease; / pitta becomes absorbed in the cold season into the mass of phlegm, or in late autumn, even while accumulating. ### [1.8.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.51) Phlegm disease undergoes provocation in spring, and therefore peace from phlegm disease occurs in the heat; / pitta reaches the state of provocation in the summer time, and seeing its pacification, paittika \[disorders\] calm down in the rainy season. ### [1.8.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.52) From suppression of flatus, urine, and feces; from astringent and excessively cold foods; during night-vigils; / from sexual intercourse, or from the fatigue of carrying, from eating too much wind\[-provoking food\], commonly through shouting, speech, and extreme fear; ### [1.8.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.53) by dry things, by excessively alkaline, bitter, and pungent substances; likewise in a carriage, swing, horse, camel, or chariot, / or donkey, elephant, or climbing buildings; and by fasting, provocation of wind occurs. ### [1.8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.54) On a cold day, on a foul day, after bathing and drinking, in the afternoon, or during night-vigil or daytime, / during the rainy season wind alone undergoes provocation; when indulged in, it digests what has been eaten. ### [1.8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.55) Lentils, peas, flat beans, great black-gram, white lentils, and pure barleys, / great cāvala grains, black and others taught as cold, kaṅgu, wild rice, and red winter rice; ### [1.8.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.56) likewise kodrava, and śyāmāka: boiled rice made from these, or cooked barley-gruel; / watermelons, bathua, cillīka, pūtīka, onion, carrot, and tuberous vegetables: ### [1.8.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.57) these, when consumed excessively, cause provocation of wind; and that arising from liquor is also declared. / Therefore, men should diligently guard against it, if you desire auspicious, constant relief from disease. ### [1.8.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.58) By excessively hot, pungent, sour, and dry things; during heartburn; by resorting to sīdhu wine and surā; by fastings; / by heat, anger, sudation, or sexual intercourse, pitta undergoes provocation. ### [1.8.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.59) en: By the broth of horse gram or pigeon pea, radishes, horseradish tree, camphor root, mustard, and mustard greens, / also by staying awake at night, by fighting or exertion, at the end of the rainy clouds in autumn, its provocation is taught. ### [1.8.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.60) en: Or by sour \[food\], in the hot season, in autumn, severely at midday or midnight, / or when the food essence is digested immediately after eating, provocation is stated by the skilled wise to be caused by pitta. ### [1.8.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.61) en: By staying awake at night, excessive sleeping in the day, consuming very cold water, or in a cold place, / by drinking milk, colostrum, sugarcane, sesame, also by carrots, and by tuberous vegetables, ### [1.8.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.62) en: by regularly consuming goosefoot, small fish, slimy curds, black gram, wine, heavy foods, / and by consuming excessively unctuous foods in meals, the provocation of kapha in spring is taught. ### [1.8.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.63) en: At the end of day, in the morning, or at the end of the night, its provocation in a man is stated when he eats before \[a previous meal\] is digested; / the disease is taught by the wise and skilled; know the origin of kapha as accompanied by distress. ### [1.8.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.64) en: In cold weather, or in the cold season, at the end of the night, provocation in a man is taught when a meal / is not yet digested; this onset of disease is taught by the wise, and the cause of kapha is stated thus by the intelligent. ### [1.8.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.65) en: When the season is contrary, and that which is declared as provoking \[a doṣa\] / is consumed by a man, the disease that causes affliction will be born of a dual combination \[of doṣas\]. ### [1.8.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.66) en: If a man consumes factors provoking phlegm in the season / in which provocation of vāta is declared, then for him there will be provocation of both kapha and vāta. ### [1.8.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.67) en: When wind is provoked, if one consumes factors provoking pitta, / or if there is an irregularity of season and grain, it will then arise from pitta and vāta. ### [1.8.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.68) en: When the time has arrived at an irregularity, and taste is consumed improperly, / then sannipāta will indeed occur, causing complications of disease. ### [1.8.5-2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8.5-2) en: Thus in the instruction of Ātreya, in the later section of Hārīta, ends the fifth chapter, titled "The Provocation of Doṣas." --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.1.8) · Pramāṇa