[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) › 1.152 # Garudapurana 1.152 English (machine translation) 1.152 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.152.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.27) — 1 part ### [1.152.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 152. Dhanvantari said: Now I shall declare the diagnosis of the disease of consumption, / which is followed by many diseases and precedes many diseases. ### [1.152.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.2) It is called royal consumption (rājayakṣmā), wasting (kṣaya), desiccation (śoṣa), and king of diseases (rogarāj). / Because it occurred in ancient times to the king of stars and dvijas \[the Moon\], ### [1.152.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.3) and because it is both a king and consumption, it is therefore considered royal consumption. / Because it causes the wasting of bodily tissues and remedies, and because it arises therefrom, it is wasting; ### [1.152.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.4) because of the drying up of chyle and the other tissues, it is desiccation; and it is king of diseases because it acts like a king. / Rash action, suppression of natural urges, loss of semen, vigor, and unctuousness, ### [1.152.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.5) and disregard for the proper regimen of food and drink are its four causes. / Agitated by these, wind excites pitta in vain all around, ### [1.152.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.6) enters the joints of the body, violently afflicts the vessels, / blocks the openings of the channels, or likewise excessively opens them, ### [1.152.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.7) and produces disease of the heart, in the middle, upper, lower, and transverse \[regions\]. / The premonitory signs of this approaching \[illness\] are catarrh, severe fever, ### [1.152.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.8) salivation, sweetness in the mouth, weakness of the digestive fire and of the body, / gluttonous cravings for food and drink, perceiving impurity in what is pure, ### [1.152.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.9) frequent falling of flies, straw, hair, and the like into food and drink, / nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, loss of strength even when unbathed/bathed, ### [1.152.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.10) excessive whiteness of the hands, chest, feet, mouth, abdomen, and eyes, / a pricking pain in the arms, \[a coating on\] the tongue, seeing hideousness in one's body, ### [1.152.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.11) fondness for women, liquor, and meat, disgust, covering the head, / overgrowth of nails and hair, and defeat in dreams. ### [1.152.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.12) Falling \[or attacked\] by chameleons, snakes, monkeys, beasts of prey, and birds, / climbing upon heaps of hair, bones, chaff, ash, and the like, or trees, ### [1.152.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.13) beholding deserted villages and regions, drying up of water, / light falling from the sky, forest fires, and burning trees \[are seen in dreams\]. ### [1.152.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.14) Chronic catarrh, asthma, cough, pain in the voice and head, loss of taste, / upward breath, emaciation, and vomiting downward when it has entered the digestive tract, ### [1.152.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.15) pain situated in the flanks, and fever occurring when located in the joints: / these eleven symptoms of royal consumption arise. ### [1.152.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.16) One should know its complications to be painful afflictions ruining the throat, / yawning, aching limbs, spitting, sluggish digestive fire, and fetor of the mouth. ### [1.152.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.17) There, from wind arise aching of the head and flanks, with generalized body-ache, / choking of the throat, and loss of voice. From pitta arise \[burning\] in feet, shoulders, and hands, ### [1.152.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.18) burning sensation, diarrhea, vomiting of blood, foul mouth odor, fever, and intoxication. / From kapha arise anorexia, vomiting, cough, heaviness in the upper limbs, ### [1.152.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.19) salivation, catarrh, dyspnea, hoarseness of voice, and sluggish digestive fire. / Due to sluggish digestive fire through the humors, with predominant swelling, coating, and kapha, ### [1.152.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.20) when the channel-mouths are obstructed and the tissues are deficient, / burning occurs in the seat of the mind, and other complications arise. ### [1.152.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.21) The food is digested right in the gut accompanied by sour juices; / the food of one suffering from wasting mostly does not serve to nourish the limbs. ### [1.152.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.22) For his chyle does not produce blood, nor \[blood produce\] flesh; / supported purely on all sides \[by waste matter alone\], the consumptive person survives. ### [1.152.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.23) Even with few symptoms, one who is severely emaciated and has loss of the six sense organs in the disease / should be rejected; but otherwise, even with all \[symptoms present\], one should treat him. ### [1.152.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.24) From the humors, separate or combined, and from the depletion of all fat, / hoarseness of voice may occur: his voice becomes weak, dry, and unstable. ### [1.152.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.25) The throat appears parrot-colored, with relief from unctuous and warm things, from wind. / From pitta, there is a burning sensation in the palate and throat, and continuous dryness. ### [1.152.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.26) The throat seems smeared with phlegm, and the mouth rattles. / From all \[humors\] conflicting on their own, wasting occurs with all symptoms. ### [1.152.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.27) It seems to smoke intensely, and phlegmatic signs arise. / Here, cases of wasting are difficult to cure; and one should reject that which possesses all \[symptoms\] even if slight. ### [1.152.27.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152.27.p1) Thus ends the one hundred fifty-second chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Consumption', 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.1.152.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.152) · Pramāṇa