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Garudapurana 1.154

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1.154.1

Dhanvantari said: / I shall now tell you the diagnosis of heart diseases and the like, O Suśruta. / With the symptoms of worm-born heart disease, five [conditions] situated in the heart are taught.

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From vāta, there is extreme emptiness, aching, and he weeps aloud; / the heart feels torn, withered, stiff, empty, and there is dizziness,

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sudden depression, sorrow, fear, intolerance of noise, / trembling, stupor from shaking, obstruction of breath, and little sleep.

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From pitta, there is thirst, fatigue, burning, sweat, sour phlegmatic sequence, / vomiting of acid bile, smoky sensation, and fever.

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From śleṣman, the heart is stiff, heavy, as though filled with a stone, / with cough, wasting of bones, spitting, sleep, lassitude, anorexia, and fever.

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In heart disease caused by the three humors and worms, there is dark coloration of the eyes, / entering into darkness, nausea, swelling, itching, and flow of phlegm.

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And the heart is constantly torn as if with a saw; / one must quickly treat this terrible disease, for it kills swiftly.

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Thirst arises from vāta, from pitta, from kapha, from combination of all three, and loss of strength; / a sixth may be from complications, and vāta and pitta are the cause.

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In all of them, the aggravation [of thirst] occurs from the complete drying up of the bodily elements, / causing dizziness of the whole body, trembling, heat, burning in the heart, and delusion.

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Having dried up the root of the tongue, the throat, the kloman, the palate, and the water-carrying channels, / thirsts arise. Their general symptom [is as follows]:

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Dryness of the mouth, insatiability for water, aversion to food, loss of voice, / fatigue in protruding the tongue because of roughness of throat, lips, and palate,

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delirium, mental confusion, and an illness rich in belching. / From wind [come] emaciation, misery, splitting pain in the temples, and dizziness in the head,

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loss of smell, bad taste in the mouth, loss of hearing, sleep, and strength, / increase of cold and sour froth. From pitta [come] fainting, bitterness of the mouth,

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redness of the eyes, constant drying, burning, extreme smoky sensation. / Kapha, agitated from the fluid essence, and wind in the water-carrying [channels],

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then dry up the channel full of kapha like mud. / Then the throat seems bristling as if with awns, there is sleep, and sweetness of the mouth,

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distension, dullness of the head, numbness, vomiting, and anorexia, / lassitude, and indigestion. That which has all symptoms arises [from all three humors].

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From the rising of undigested matter and from the obstruction of blood, vāta and pitta arise. / Thirst arises for one overcome by heat who suddenly drinks cold water;

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going upward from heat to the gastrointestinal tract, it produces [thirst] born indeed of pitta. / That which arises from excessive drinking, or at the sharp point of the digestion of fats,

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or born of kapha through eating unctuous, pungent, sour, and salty food; / [and] thirst characterized by consumption, having the symptoms described for loss of bodily fluid;

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The severe thirst that arises as a complication of other chronic diseases / such as wasting, delusion, fever, and the like, is known as complication-born.

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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-fourth chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Acid Bile [and Thirst]'.

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