[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) › 1.154 # Garudapurana 1.154 English (machine translation) 1.154 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.154.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.20) — 1 part ### [1.154.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.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. ### [1.154.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.2) From vāta, there is extreme emptiness, aching, and he weeps aloud; / the heart feels torn, withered, stiff, empty, and there is dizziness, ### [1.154.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.3) sudden depression, sorrow, fear, intolerance of noise, / trembling, stupor from shaking, obstruction of breath, and little sleep. ### [1.154.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.4) From pitta, there is thirst, fatigue, burning, sweat, sour phlegmatic sequence, / vomiting of acid bile, smoky sensation, and fever. ### [1.154.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.5) From śleṣman, the heart is stiff, heavy, as though filled with a stone, / with cough, wasting of bones, spitting, sleep, lassitude, anorexia, and fever. ### [1.154.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.6) 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. ### [1.154.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.7) And the heart is constantly torn as if with a saw; / one must quickly treat this terrible disease, for it kills swiftly. ### [1.154.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.8) 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. ### [1.154.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.9) 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. ### [1.154.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.10) Having dried up the root of the tongue, the throat, the kloman, the palate, and the water-carrying channels, / thirsts arise. Their general symptom \[is as follows\]: ### [1.154.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.11) 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, ### [1.154.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.12) delirium, mental confusion, and an illness rich in belching. / From wind \[come\] emaciation, misery, splitting pain in the temples, and dizziness in the head, ### [1.154.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.13) 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, ### [1.154.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.14) redness of the eyes, constant drying, burning, extreme smoky sensation. / Kapha, agitated from the fluid essence, and wind in the water-carrying \[channels\], ### [1.154.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.15) 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, ### [1.154.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.16) distension, dullness of the head, numbness, vomiting, and anorexia, / lassitude, and indigestion. That which has all symptoms arises \[from all three humors\]. ### [1.154.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.17) 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; ### [1.154.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.18) 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, ### [1.154.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.19) 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; ### [1.154.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.20) 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. ### [1.154.20.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154.20.p1) 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 \[and Thirst\]'. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.154.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.154) · Pramāṇa