[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) › 1.162 # Garudapurana 1.162 English (machine translation) 1.162 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.162.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.40) — 1 part ### [1.162.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.1) The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa — 162 / Dhanvantari said: / Hear, Suśruta, as I tell you the pathology of anaemia and swelling. / The impurities with bile predominant, aggravated by the aforesaid aggravating causes, ### [1.162.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.2) driven by the powerful wind, whether lodged after being repeatedly propelled, / entering the ten vessels, pervade the entire body. ### [1.162.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.3) Corrupting the skin, blood, phlegm, and flesh, relying on the chyle, / they produce various colours in the skin and between skin and flesh. ### [1.162.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.4) A turmeric-yellow or pale complexion is especially prominent among them; / when this fierce disease has advanced, it strikes, and thence comes heaviness, ### [1.162.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.5) laxity to the touch of the bodily tissues, and loss of quality arising from undigested matter; / thence one becomes poor in blood, fat, and bone, sapless, and with slackened senses, ### [1.162.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.6) with limbs feeling as if shattered, a sense of liquefaction at the heart, / pain in the eye-sockets and mouth, and stupor accompanied by salivation; ### [1.162.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.7) with diminished thirst, aversion to cold, fallen hair, destroyed digestive fire, / weak strength, feverish, dyspnoeic, afflicted with earache, and dizzy. ### [1.162.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.8) It is of five kinds: through each doṣa separately, through all combined, and from eating earth. / Its premonitory signs are throbbing of the heart and dryness of the skin, ### [1.162.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.9) anorexia, yellow urine, absence of sweat, and scanty urine. / There, from wind resembling fat, there is severe pain and clamminess of the body, ### [1.162.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.10) blackness of gaze, dark veins, nails, faeces, urine, and eyes, / swelling, bad taste in the nose and mouth, dryness of stools, and stupor in the flanks. ### [1.162.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.11) In \[anaemia from\] bile, there is a green or yellow appearance; fever and darkness in the veins, head, and so forth; / thirst, dryness, fainting, foul odour, desire for cold, and acrid taste in the mouth, ### [1.162.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.12) diarrhoea, sour eructations, and burning sensation. From phlegm, there is moisture of the heart, / drowsiness, salty taste in the mouth, goosebumps, and loss of voice, ### [1.162.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.13) cough, and vomiting. From the combination of all three, its symptoms are mixed and exceedingly unbearable. / Provoked by wind and bile, pungent or sweet phlegm, ### [1.162.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.14) having vitiated the muscle-fat and other \[tissues\], causes loss of blood due to dryness, / and causes wasting of the channels, obstructing them as before. ### [1.162.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.15) When anaemia advances to consumption, the navel, feet, mouth, and penis \[swell\]; / one discharges stool like worms, loose, accompanied by blood and phlegm. ### [1.162.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.16) If a patient with a bilious disorder indulges in bile-provoking things, he develops jaundice; / the bile, having entered the visceral organs and the branches \[of the vessels\], burning blood and flesh, brings on \[jaundice\], ### [1.162.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.17) with turmeric-yellow urine and eyes, a red face, and similarly coloured faeces, / burning sensations, indigestion, thirst, resembling a frog \[in complexion\], and with weakened senses. ### [1.162.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.18) In one afflicted with anaemia, swelling follows upon bile; / and from neglect, swelling and other symptoms become the intractable pot-jaundice. ### [1.162.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.19) When the bile becomes greenish-black in anaemia, / with wind and bile \[provoked\], dizziness, thirst, lack of pleasure in women, mild fever, ### [1.162.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.20) drowsiness, or loss of digestive fire—they call that halīmaka. / Excessive lethargy is an early complication of these \[conditions\]. ### [1.162.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.21) Swelling has been stated to be prominent; that very \[swelling\] is now described: / The corrupted wind, carrying the vitiated bile, blood, and phlegm to the outer vessels, ### [1.162.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.22) having its movement blocked by them, produces an elevation situated in the skin and flesh; / that compact \[elevation\] they call swelling, caused by accumulation. ### [1.162.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.23) According to all the particular causes, it is of nine types by difference of characteristics: / by the distinct individual doṣas, by all combined, from injury, and also from poison. ### [1.162.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.24) That very \[swelling\] spreading over the whole body is considered systemic; / they know it to be threefold by the distinctions of broad, elevated, and nodular. ### [1.162.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.25) The general cause of swellings is born of the doṣas in particular; / the disease develops quickly in one weakened by illness, physical exertion, fasting, and the like. ### [1.162.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.26) When one excessively indulges in heavy and extremely cold foods, salty, alkaline, pungent, sour vegetables, water, sleep, and staying awake at night; ### [1.162.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.27) In the suppression of urges, dried meat, indigestion, exertion, sexual intercourse, or travelling along roads by walking or by a jolting vehicle; ### [1.162.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.28) Dyspnoea, cough, diarrhoea, piles, abdominal enlargement, menorrhagia, fever, flatulence, lassitude, vomiting, hiccup, anaemia, and erysipelas \[occur\]. ### [1.162.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.29) Those \[doṣas\] situated in the upper part cause swelling in the upper body; those situated below, in the bladder; those in the middle, in the middle; that which pervades the whole body affects all parts, according to its respective seat. ### [1.162.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.30) Its premonitory symptoms are sneezing, stretching of veins, and heaviness of limbs. Swelling caused by vāta is mobile, rough, with coarse body-hair, reddish, or dark. ### [1.162.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.31) It has pain in the temples, bladder, and intestines, tearing pain in fat, numbness, excess of vāta, and fatigue; when pressed, the body quickly rises up again. ### [1.162.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.32) It is soothed by oily massages; it is small at night and large by day; and when mustard is applied to the skin, it tingles. ### [1.162.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.33) The swelling arising from pitta has a yellow, red, or dark appearance, and causes emaciation; it does not subside quickly, or it burns the body initially from the middle. ### [1.162.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.34) It is accompanied by thirst, burning, fever, sweat, dizziness, weariness, intoxication, and vertigo; it involves desires, loose stools, odour, intolerance of touch, and is soft. ### [1.162.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.35) The \[kapha-type\] is itchy, with pale hair, hard skin, cold, heavy, unctuous, smooth, stable, painful, causing sleep, vomiting, and sluggish digestion. ### [1.162.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.36) Due to a blow, cutting, piercing, or wounding by weapons and the like, or by frosty winds, winds carrying curd, or caused by bhallātaka and kapikacchu, ### [1.162.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.37) Or by contact with their dry juices, a spreading swelling occurs; it has great heat, a reddish appearance, and mostly pitta characteristics. ### [1.162.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.38) The poison-born \[swelling\] occurs from the crawling or urination of poisonous creatures, or from the strike of fangs, teeth, or claws even of non-poisonous creatures; ### [1.162.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.39) From contact with dirty clothes soiled by faeces, urine, and semen, from the touch of wind blowing from poisonous trees, or from sprinkling with slow poison. ### [1.162.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.40) It is soft, mobile, hanging down, rapid, and causes burning and pain. A recent swelling without complications is curable; the incurable has been explained earlier. ### [1.162.40.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162.40.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-second chapter, named “Diagnosis of Anaemia and Swelling”, in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.162.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.162) · Pramāṇa