[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) › 1.151 # Garudapurana 1.151 English (machine translation) 1.151 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.151.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.15) — 1 part ### [1.151.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 151. Dhanvantari said: And now I shall tell the etiology of the disease of hiccough, Suśruta! Listen to that. It shares the same cause and premonitory signs as asthma; the count \[of its varieties\] is based on their nature. ### [1.151.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.2) Hiccough is \[of five kinds\]: food-caused, minor, double, great, / and deep. There, wind \[is aggravated\] by food and drink taken in haste and improperly, ### [1.151.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.3) afflicted by dry, sharp, harsh, and unsuitable foods and drinks; / respiration \[then\] produces a hiccough of feeble sound, accompanying hunger. ### [1.151.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.4) That which passes away evenly upon taking food and drink is 'food-caused'. / From physical exertion, angered wind brings about 'minor' hiccough. ### [1.151.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.5) Issuing from the root of the clavicle, it indeed has feeble force; / it increases through exertion and abates as soon as food is eaten. ### [1.151.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.6) The hiccough that arises with paired paroxysms at intervals, / increases during digestion and also reaches its peak in the mouth during digestion, ### [1.151.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.7) shaking the head and the neck, one should designate as 'double'. / Accompanied by delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, watery eyes, and yawning, ### [1.151.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.8) that 'double' hiccough is forceful and characterized by digestion. / For one whose temples and pair of brows are collapsed, whose vision and hearing are impaired, ### [1.151.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.9) stiffening the body, arresting speech, causing loss of memory and consciousness, / piercing as it seeks \[an exit\], and striking the vital parts, ### [1.151.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.10) causing bending backward with jealousy/fretfulness, the 'great' hiccough arises, / with severe pain, loud sound, immense force, and great power. ### [1.151.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.11) It originates as before, either from the intestine or the navel. ### [1.151.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.12) With that form, it causes excessive yawning and stretching of the limbs. / Due to a deep etiology, however, the 'deep' \[hiccough\] is very difficult to cure. ### [1.151.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.13) One should avoid the first two, others \[with all symptoms\], and the forceful one showing all signs / in a person of accumulated \[morbid matter\], the aged, and the excessively sexually active, ### [1.151.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.14) in one whose body is wasted by diseases, and one emaciated by fasting. / Though all diseases tend to destruction, none act so swiftly ### [1.151.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.15) as hiccough and asthma, for they have made their abode at the time of death. ### [1.151.15.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151.15.p1) Thus ends the one hundred fifty-first chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Hiccough', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section named First Part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.151.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.151) · Pramāṇa