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Garudapurana 1.153

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1.153.1

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — [Chapter] 153.
Dhanvantari said:
I shall now declare to you the diagnosis of anorexia, Suśruta.
Anorexia arises from the humors located in the tongue and heart,

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from a combination of all three, and the fifth from distress of mind. / In [anorexia caused by] wind and the others respectively, the mouth is astringent, bitter, and sweet.

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[The mouth becomes] entirely tasteless in sorrow, anger, and the like, according to the state of mind. / Vomiting [arises] through the humors individually, combined from all when vitiated, and a fifth from external causes.

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Udāna throws out all the stimulated humors fit for the joints; / rapid distress, a salty taste, salivation, and anorexia [occur] in succession for him.

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Pain quickly strikes the navel and back; it casts up food into the flanks; / then he vomits what is broken up, in small quantities, astringent, and frothy,

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accompanied by sound and belching, with difficulty and painful effort, forcefully, / causing cough and dryness of the mouth, from vāta, accompanied by affliction of the voice.

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From pitta, [the vomit is] like alkaline water, smoky, green or yellow, / accompanied by blood, sour, pungent, bitter, attended by thirst, fainting, burning, and suppuration.

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From kapha, it is unctuous, thick, yellow, phlegmatic, mixed with mucus, / sweet, salty, copious, continuous, and causing horripilation.

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One who has facial swelling, a sweet taste in the mouth, drowsiness, nausea, and cough, / and is beset with all the symptoms, is entirely to be given up.

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And one for whom everything is repulsive to sight, hearing, and the like [has the psychic form]. / In the disease arising from food corrupted by enraged worms through vāta and the rest, / pain, trembling, and nausea arise especially in the worm-born [type].

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Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa, in the first section called the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part, the one hundred and fifty-third chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Anorexia'.

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