Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 2.5

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2.5.47 — 1 part

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Ātreya said: / Those diseases which, fortified by complications, become incurable / through rejuvenation therapy and the like—listen to them from me, dear one, with single-minded attention.

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Disorders of wind, urinary disorder, leprosy, haemorrhoids, fistula-in-ano, / urinary calculus, obstructed labour, and abdominal disease as the eighth—

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These eight great diseases are difficult to treat by their very nature.

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When they are further beset by these complications: loss of strength and flesh, dyspnoea, thirst, desiccation, vomiting, fever, / fainting, diarrhoea, and hiccup,

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They must be especially avoided by a physician desiring success.

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One whose tongue becomes sharp, or yellow, or of bluish tinge, / whose breathing is exceedingly hot, and whose body is covered in goosebumps,

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Whose eyes are blue, reddish, or yellow, and whose throat rattles— / afflicted with fever, he whose symptoms are such does not survive.

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He whose breath is foul in the mouth, whose row of teeth is darkened, / and whose eyes are fixed by force, afflicted with fever, does not survive at all.

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He who urinates excessively, pants heavily, is emaciated, tormented by loss of appetite, / and whose lustre and sense faculties are destroyed, suffering from fever, quickly perishes.

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He in whose mouth blood collects, who suffers from a headache, / who is burning within and cold without, reaches death through fever.

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A man who faints and loses consciousness, or lies fallen, / afflicted with cold while burning inside, dies of fever.

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He whose body hair stands on end, whose eyes are red, who has crushing pain in his heart, / and who constantly exhales through his mouth, him that fever kills.

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Fever destroys the emaciated man who is tormented by hiccup, dyspnoea, and thirst, / who is senseless, whose eyes wander, and who exhales continuously.

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Fever destroys the man whose eyes are turbid, who faints, who is excessively lethargic, / and whose blood and flesh are depleted.

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Fever quickly destroys one with thick sputum, overflowing eyes, tormented by loss of appetite, / with burning within and a blackened tongue.

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He who, though treated for one complication, shows no relief, / and has other severe complications, being mostly multiform—

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Through that, being severe, he falls under the sway of death and admits of no success.

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He in whom diarrhoea is seen first, and next / dyspnoea and desiccation appear, he too quickly goes to death.

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Diarrhoea destroys a man who is afflicted with dyspnoea, colic, and thirst, / emaciated, oppressed by fever, and especially an aged man.

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He who has diarrhoea and swelling, together with loss of appetite and colic, / also quickly goes to death despite numerous treatments.

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When swelling arises in all limbs of a child, an extremely old man, / or an incapacitated man, that patient with swelling certainly dies.

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He who has flatulence, colic, dyspnoea, thirst, fainting, / and headache, that patient suffering from colic meets death.

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A man whose teeth and nails are pale, whose eyes are pale, / and who has pale accumulations, that patient with anaemia perishes.

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He whose skin is pale, whose eyes are pale, or whose urine is whitish, / and who has pale flatus, that patient with anaemia perishes.

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A man who has white eyes, an aversion to food, is afflicted with orthopnoea, / and urinates copiously with difficulty, him consumption kills in this world.

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He who is depleted of bodily tissues, afflicted with swelling and dyspnoea, / who eats excessively and feels disgust, that patient with consumption perishes.

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He whose nasal breathing is cold while his mouth blowing is hot, / whose pulse is rapid and who finds no relief, quickly goes to the abode of Yama.

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Trembling of the limbs, loss of the gait, or a saffron-hued face, / and wind emitted in evacuation—he goes to the abode of Yama.

When a disease is long-standing and advanced, and [the patient] is unable to take food, / with a broken frame, one should abandon him; even a medicament holds no secret [power]. / Recognizing such a man, the wise administer [palliative] care.

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From the loss of feces, breathlessness, and swelling, as well as torment by fever, / his chest [becoming] deep and thick—it wastes that man away.

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Breathlessness, colic, distress of thirst, aversion [to food], stupor from internal masses, / and debility occur in a sufferer from abdominal swelling who is approaching death.

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Whose eyes, tongue, and lower lip are red, or who vomits blood, / who passes blood in urine, passes blood in stool, having internal haemorrhage—he perishes.

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He who vomits red repeatedly, with blood-red eyes, / and sees the cardinal directions as red, having internal haemorrhage—he perishes.

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Whose face is swollen, afflicted with dizziness and anorexia, / with constipation and abdominal colic—he perishes from enlargement [of the abdomen].

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Distended, stiff, motionless, accompanied by vomiting, hiccup, and pain, / beset with agony and breathlessness—an internal abscess destroys such a man.

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He who has dreadful thirst, burning heat, or vomiting, / and is seized by dizziness—that man does not survive.

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When her term is unfulfilled, if a woman suffering from fever gets her menses, / she will not survive, O greatly wise one, if she has purgation.

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He who is afflicted with swelling and breathlessness, possessed of thirst, and suffering colic, / tormented by jaundice and anaemia—that man meets with death.

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From whose fistula wind, urine, feces, / worms, and semen discharge—one should abandon him.

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Swelling at the navel and testicles, retention of urine, and accompanied by pain— / urinary calculus, along with gravel and sandy particles, swiftly destroys him.

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Seized by irritation of the fetus, with retention in the vaginal canal, / in obstructed labour, these complications mentioned also kill the woman.

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Tormented by pain in the flanks, aversion to food, swelling, and diarrhoea, / having frequent fits of epilepsy, emaciated, and with knitted brows,

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and rolling his eyes—epilepsy will destroy him.

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A man afflicted with colic, numbness of skin, broken [faculties], tormented by tympanites, / and suffering acute pain—a wind disease will destroy him.

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Afflicted with the complications mentioned, with excessive urinary discharge, / and severely tormented by boils—urinary disorder kills a man.

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Fissured, with oozing limbs, red eyes, and a ruined voice, / beyond the reach of the five procedures—leprosy kills the leper here.

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Facing downward or facing upward, extremely wasted in flesh and strength, / [yet] continuously awake—he without doubt perishes from insanity.

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Thus ends the fourth chapter, named 'Prognostic Signs of Diseases', in the second section of the additional part of Hārīta spoken by Ātreya.

Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 2.5

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