[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.149 # Garudapurana 1.149 English (machine translation) 1.149 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.149.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.21) — 1 part ### [1.149.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 149 Dhanvantari said: / Since cough is swift-acting, it alone will be spoken of next. / Coughs are considered to be fivefold, caused by wind, bile, phlegm, injury, and wasting. ### [1.149.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.2) If neglected, all lead to wasting, each more potent than the preceding. / The premonitory sign of their impending onset is an itch in the throat and loss of taste. ### [1.149.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.3) Dryness of the ears, mouth, and throat occurs. There, the wind assigned to the lower parts, / moving upward and reaching the chest, enters into the throat; ### [1.149.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.4) filling the channels of the veins, it then agitates the limbs, / seeming to throw the eyes out, afflicting the voice, and causing pain in the flanks; ### [1.149.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.5) it proceeds through the mouth with a sound like broken bronze, / producing pain in the heart, flanks, thighs, and head, stupefaction, agitation, and loss of voice; ### [1.149.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.6) it causes a dry cough, with great impetus, pain, and sound. / With horripilation, having expelled dry phlegm with difficulty, it subsides into minuteness. ### [1.149.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.7) From bile there is yellowness of the eyes, bitterness of the mouth, fever, giddiness, / vomiting of bile and blood, thirst, hoarseness, a feeling of being fumed, intoxication, ### [1.149.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.8) and, during a continuous paroxysm of coughing, the apparent perception of sparks. / From phlegm, the chest and head have little pain, and the heart is motionless and heavy; ### [1.149.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.9) there is a coating in the throat, sluggishness, coryza, vomiting, loss of taste, / horripilation, and the discharge of thick, unctuous phlegm. ### [1.149.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.10) Through various rash acts such as fighting, undertaken beyond one's strength, / wind injured within the chest, followed by strong bile, ### [1.149.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.11) aggravated, produces a cough. Because of it, \[the patient\] spits phlegm accompanied by blood, / yellow, dark, dry, knotty, aggravated, and copious, ### [1.149.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.12) with a painful throat and a chest feeling as if shattered, / pierced as if by sharp needles and aching, ### [1.149.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.13) with pain tender to the touch, and burning heat caused by the pain of tearing; / having cracking of the joints, fever, breathlessness, thirst, hoarseness, and trembling; ### [1.149.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.14) cooing like a pigeon, suffering from flank pain, and then for him / vomiting of phlegm and other humors \[occurs\], and digestion, strength, and complexion decline. ### [1.149.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.15) In the emaciated \[patient\], there is blood in the urine, dyspnea, and stiffness of the back and waist. / With wind predominant, the aggravated \[humors\] running in the course of consumption ### [1.149.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.16) produce cough in the seat of consumption; then he spits phlegm / resembling foul-smelling pus, yellow, mixed, greenish, and red; ### [1.149.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.17) his chest feels numb, as if pierced, and as if burning; / he has sudden desire for hot and cold, excessive eating, loss of strength, ### [1.149.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.18) an unctuous and bright face, and eyes of radiant appearance; / then all the symptoms of wasting appear in him. ### [1.149.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.19) Thus this cough born of wasting destroys the body of the emaciated. / Or in the strong, both it and the injury-born one are manageable; but when both are fresh, ### [1.149.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.20) they may be cured by proper efficacy; and in curable and other cases, the treatment is distinct. / All mixed types are manageable, as is that of old age in the elderly. ### [1.149.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.21) Because diseases such as cough, dyspnea, wasting, vomiting, and loss of voice / arise from negligence, one should conquer them with haste. ### [1.149.21.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149.21.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and forty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Cough', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.149.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.149) · Pramāṇa