[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) › 1.159 # Garudapurana 1.159 English (machine translation) 1.159 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.159.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.39) — 1 part ### [1.159.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.1) The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa—159. / Dhanvantari said: / I shall declare to you the diagnosis of urinary disorders (pramehas); listen, Suśruta! / There are twenty urinary disorders: ten from phlegm, \[six\] from pitta, ### [1.159.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.2) six, and four from wind; and they carry fat, urine, and phlegm. / One suffering from hāridrameha \[passes\] pungent feces resembling turmeric; ### [1.159.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.3) in māñjiṣṭhameha, \[the urine\] smells raw and resembles madder water; / smelling raw, hot, salty, and blood-like in raktameha; ### [1.159.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.4) in vasāmeha, one urinates frequently \[urine\] mixed with marrow or resembling fat; / in majjāmeha, repeatedly resembling bone marrow or mixed with bone marrow; ### [1.159.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.5) like an elephant in rut, without an urge, constantly, / accompanied by lymph and obstructed, the patient with hastimeha urinates. ### [1.159.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.6) In madhumeha, \[the urine\] is like honey; it is said to arise in two ways: / when vāyu is aggravated by the depletion of bodily tissues, or when its path is obstructed by a doṣa. ### [1.159.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.7) When obstructed, it exhibits the symptoms of that doṣa without an obvious cause; / depleted in a moment, filled in a moment, it is considered difficult to cure. ### [1.159.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.8) When neglected over time, all urinary disorders become madhumeha. / Whatever is sweet among urinary disorders, one generally urinates like honey; ### [1.159.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.9) all of them are called madhumeha because of the sweetness of the body. / Indigestion, loss of appetite, vomiting, excessive sleep, cough, and chronic rhinitis— ### [1.159.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.10) these complications arise in urinary disorders born of phlegm. / Pricking pain in the bladder and penis, splitting of the scrotum, fever, ### [1.159.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.11) burning sensation, thirst, acid regurgitation, fainting, loose bowels \[arise\] in those born of pitta. / In those born of wind, upward movement of wind, trembling, cardiac spasm, restlessness, ### [1.159.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.12) acute pain, sleeplessness, wasting, dyspnea, and cough arise. / Śarāvikā, kacchapikā, jvālinī, vinatā, alajī, ### [1.159.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.13) masūrikā, sarṣapikā, putriṇī, vidārikā, / and vidradhi: these are the ten carbuncles due to neglect of urinary disorders. ### [1.159.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.14) Their manifestation is generally due to the adherence of phlegm to food: / sweet, sour, salty, unctuous, heavy, slimy, cold, ### [1.159.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.15) new grain, liquor, soup, meat, sugarcane, jaggery, milk products, / sitting in one place, lying down, and lack of exercise. ### [1.159.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.16) Vitiated kapha, resorting to the bladder, produces urinary disorders, / having corrupted the body's moisture, sweat, fat, marrow, and flesh. ### [1.159.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.17) When kapha and the rest are severely depleted, pitta \[vitiates\] blood; wind, resorting to urine / and bringing the tissues to the bladder, \[acts\] upon their depletion. ### [1.159.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.18) Thus the urinary disorders arise therefrom, being curable or incurable by consideration; / they are formed equally when the doṣas are equal, yet owing to predominance \[they differ\]. ### [1.159.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.19) The general characteristic of them is copious and turbid urination. / Even without a distinction among the doṣas and susceptible bodily components, by their special combination, ### [1.159.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.20) the division among urinary disorders is conceived by the differences in the color of the urine and the like. / Clear, abundant, white, cold, odorless, water-like, ### [1.159.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.21) one urinates in udakameha, somewhat turbid and slimy; / like sugarcane juice, and exceedingly sweet in ikṣumeha; ### [1.159.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.22) it becomes dense after standing in sāndrameha; / in surāmeha, it resembles liquor, clear on top and dense below; ### [1.159.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.23) with hair standing on end, one with piṣṭameha \[urinates urine\] thick and white like flour; / one with śukrameha passes urine resembling semen or mixed with semen; ### [1.159.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.24) in sikatāmeha, one urinates gravel-like impurities; / in śītameha, very often, sweet, and intensely cold; ### [1.159.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.25) in śanairmeha, one urinates very slowly and gently; / in lālāmeha, the urine has threads of saliva and is slimy; ### [1.159.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.26) in kṣārameha, it resembles alkaline water in smell, color, taste, and touch; / in nīlameha, it has a blue hue; in kālameha, it resembles ink. ### [1.159.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.27) They appear in joints, vital spots, and fleshy locations: / elevated at the edges, depressed in the middle, free of discharge, and accompanied by great pain, ### [1.159.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.28) having the size and form of a saucer, such a carbuncle is śarāvikā; / burning and shaped like a tortoise, kacchapikā is known by the wise; ### [1.159.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.29) a large, dark carbuncle is known as vinatā; / jvālinī burns the skin upon erupting and causes intense torment; ### [1.159.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.30) alajī is red and white, covered with blisters, and terrible; / masūrikā is to be known as having the shape of a lentil; ### [1.159.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.31) sarṣapikā resembles a mustard seed, with inflammation of the tongue and severe pain; / putriṇī is known as a large carbuncle \[covered with\] small, very minute eruptions; ### [1.159.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.32) vidārikā is round like a vidārī tuber and hard; / and that which is endowed with the characteristics of an abscess is to be recognized as vidradhikā. ### [1.159.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.33) Putriṇī and vidārī are difficult to endure and occur in those with abundant fat; / the others, predominant in pitta, arise suddenly in those with little fat. ### [1.159.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.34) These carbuncles appear according to the respective excitation of the doṣas; / they arise even without urinary disorders in one whose fat is vitiated. ### [1.159.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.35) And they are not noticed as long as color is devoid \[of anomaly\], / whether turmeric-colored or red, devoid of the premonitory symptoms of urinary disorders. ### [1.159.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.36) \[The urinary affliction in which\] one urinates that \[blood\] is known as raktapitta. / Sweating, a bodily odor, flaccidity in the limbs, attachment to the comforts of bed, seat, and sleep, / a burning sensation in the heart, eyes, tongue, and ears, thickness and fierceness \[of skin\], excessive growth of hair and nails, ### [1.159.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.37) fondness for cold things, dryness of the throat and palate, sweetness in the mouth, and burning in the hands and feet / are the prodromal symptoms of the forthcoming group of urinary disorders (meha), and even into the urine the ants run. ### [1.159.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.38) Thirst in urinary disorder is sweet and slimy; in honey-urine disease (diabetes mellitus) there may be various disorders. / Or it may arise from kapha due to over-nourishment, or from wind when the humors are depleted. ### [1.159.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.39) The urinary disorders of kapha and pitta with fully developed symptoms arise in due course indeed from sexual indulgence; / those caused by pitta become incurable or only palliable; the urinary disorder is curable if destiny does not \[forbid it\]. ### [1.159.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159.39.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Diagnosis of Urinary Disorders', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.159.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.159) · Pramāṇa