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Dhanvantari said: I shall tell you the diagnosis of vātarakta, Suśruta; listen to that: By incompatible foods, eating before previous meals are digested, anger, daytime sleep, and night-waking; ### [1.167.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.2) mostly in delicate people, those of improper diet and conduct, / the obese, and the indolent, wind-blood (vātaśoṇita) becomes aggravated. ### [1.167.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.3) When the blood of humans is corrupted through loss of digestive fire and lack of purification, / the wind, aggravated and angered by wind-producing and cold substances, moves along wrong paths. ### [1.167.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.4) Obstructed by such blood, it immediately corrupts it; / then wind produces pain in the rectum, \[aggravates\] kapha, and causes vātaśoṇita. ### [1.167.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.5) Stiffening \[the limbs\], it first arises and then rushes everywhere; / its symptom is droopiness, especially after vomiting and the like. ### [1.167.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.6) When it is about to appear, resembling kuṣṭha and known as producing watery patches, / in the joints of the knees, shanks, thighs, hips, shoulders, hands, feet, and limbs, ### [1.167.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.7) itching, twitching, piercing pain, breaking pain, heaviness, and numbness / appear repeatedly, subside, and emerge again and again. ### [1.167.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.8) Starting at the base of the feet, and sometimes of the hands, / it furiously courses through the entire body, like a rat entering its hole. ### [1.167.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.9) Situated in the skin and flesh, it is superficial at first; / in the course of time, becoming deep-seated, it assails all bodily tissues. ### [1.167.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.10) In places bound to the hips and elsewhere, the skin turns copper-colored, dusky, or red, / with knotted swelling and suppuration; that wind, entering the bones and marrow, ### [1.167.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.11) swiftly moves within as if tearing apart and making them rigid; / moving throughout the body, it makes a person lame or crippled. ### [1.167.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.12) When wind predominates, there is severe colic, twitching, and aching pain, / dryness, blackness, or duskiness of the swelling, and fluctuating waxing and waning; ### [1.167.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.13) constriction of vessels and finger-joints, stiffness of limbs, intense pain, / aversion and non-suitability to cold, rigidity, trembling, and numbness. ### [1.167.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.14) When blood \[predominates\], there is swelling, severe pain and pricking, copper coloration, tingling sensation; / it does not subside with unctuous or dry \[therapies\], and is accompanied by itching and moisture. ### [1.167.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.15) When pitta \[predominates\], there is burning sensation, confusion, perspiration, fainting, intoxication, thirst, / intolerance to touch, crying out from pain, wasting, suppuration, and intense heat. ### [1.167.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.16) When kapha \[predominates\], there is stiffness, heaviness, numbness, unctuousness, coldness, / itching, and mild pain; in dual combinations, \[there are signs of both\], and all symptoms in a combination of all three. ### [1.167.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.17) That caused by a single dosha is curable, and that born of two doshas is manageable; / one born of three doshas should be quickly abandoned, as it is very dreadful raktapitta. ### [1.167.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.18) The wind swiftly destroys the blood in the body; / lodging in the joints of the extremities and mutually obstructing \[the passages\], it takes away life through painful afflictions. ### [1.167.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.19) When prāṇa, among the fivefold wind, is aggravated by dryness, restlessness, fasting, / overeating, physical trauma, and the suppression or premature urging of natural urges, ### [1.167.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.20) it brings about impairment of the eyes and other sense organs; / chronic catarrh, burning sensation, thirst, cough, dyspnea, and the like also arise. ### [1.167.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.21) Lodged above the collarbones, it produces obstruction of the throat, bowel dysfunction, / vomiting, loss of appetite, chronic catarrh, goiter, and similar ailments. ### [1.167.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.22) Vyāna, corrupted by excessive walking, bathing, play, sexual activity, / and incompatible, dry, fearful, exhilarating, or depressing circumstances, ### [1.167.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.23) causes loss of virility, energy, and strength, grief, mental flightiness, fever, / various forms of shooting pain, horripilation, and deep numbness, ### [1.167.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.24) kuṣṭha, erysipelas (visarpa), and other conditions causing exhaustion of all limbs. / Samāna, \[corrupted\] by irregular, unwholesome, cold, and mixed food, ### [1.167.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.25) and corrupted by sleeping at improper hours, waking at night, and the like, / produces colic, abdominal tumors (gulma), sprue (grahaṇī), and diseases situated in the liver and stomach. ### [1.167.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.26) Apāna, through excessive consumption of dry and heavy food, suppression of natural urges, / excessive riding in carriages, drinking, standing, and walking, ### [1.167.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.27) being aggravated, causes all diseases situated in the colon, / and many disorders of urine and semen, hemorrhoids, prolapse of the rectum, and the like. ### [1.167.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.28) The entire body is stretched; in the sāma state, there is drowsiness, numbness, heaviness, / greasy sensation, untimely sleep, coldness, swelling, and loss of digestive fire. ### [1.167.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.29) Through destruction of itching and excessive dryness, and through relief of like conditions, / one should know liberation from it as nirāma, by the reversal of drowsiness and the like. ### [1.167.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.30) Wind is said to have many varieties of occlusion (āvaraṇa). / When occluded by symptoms of pitta, there is burning sensation, thirst, colic, vertigo, and darkness of vision; ### [1.167.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.31) internal burning caused by pungent, hot, sour, and salty things, desire for cold, / and excessive coldness, heaviness, colic, loss of fire, \[relieved by\] pungent substances, ghee, and milk. ### [1.167.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.32) When occluded by kapha, there is a desire for fasting, exertion, dry, and hot things; / when occluded by kapha, there is aching in the limbs, nausea, heaviness, and anorexia. ### [1.167.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.33) When occluded by blood, severe burning pain arises from the skin and flesh; / there is reddish swelling, and circular patches appear. ### [1.167.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.34) When occluded by flesh, the swelling is hard, with nausea and eruption of boils, / horripilation, and a feeling as if ants were crawling; / \[or else\] a mobile, soft, cold swelling on the limbs, with loss of appetite. ### [1.167.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.35) When occluded by fat, it should be known to resemble āḍhyavāta, and is difficult \[to cure\]. / When occluded by skin, touch feels hot or cold when covered. / When occluded by marrow, there is irregular yawning and twisting \[sensations\], ### [1.167.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.36) and colic; being squeezed with both hands gives relief. / But when occluded by semen, there is no excessive urge during swelling; ### [1.167.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.37) when food is eaten there is pain in the abdomen, and when digested there is certainly cutting pain. / When occluded by urine, there is retention of urine and distension of the bladder. ### [1.167.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.38) When occluded in the orifices, there is constipation, and it tears at its own location; / the person collapses quickly, stricken with fever, and faints. ### [1.167.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.39) Oppressed once by the other, one emits vitiated semen after a long time. / When vāyu is occluded by all the tissues, there is pain in the pelvis, groin, and back; ### [1.167.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.40) and when the wind moves contrariwise, the heart is tormented. / When prāṇa is occluded by pitta, there is dizziness, fainting, pain, and burning sensation. ### [1.167.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.41) When vyāna is \[occluded by pitta\], there is pain, drowsiness, loss of voice, and burning sensation everywhere, / fatigue, impaired bodily movement, and fever accompanied by pain. ### [1.167.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.42) When samāna \[is occluded by pitta\], there is impairment of body heat, cessation with sweating, intense thirst, / and burning; but when apāna \[is occluded by pitta\], the stool has a turmeric-like color, ### [1.167.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.43) excessive menses, heat, distension, and urinary distress. / When prāṇa is covered by phlegm, there is humming, obstruction of the channels, ### [1.167.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.44) spitting, perspiration, and retention of inhalation and exhalation. / When udāna \[is covered by phlegm\], there is heaviness of limbs, loss of appetite, and obstruction of speech and voice. ### [1.167.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.45) There is loss of strength and complexion; in apāna \[covered by phlegm\], stiffness of the joints and bones, / heaviness in all limbs, and marked corpulence ensues. ### [1.167.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.46) When samāna \[is covered by phlegm\], there is numbness, absence of sweating, and weak digestive fire; / when apāna \[is covered by phlegm\], the evacuation of all urine and stool is impeded. ### [1.167.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.47) Thus they know the disease of vātarakta to be of twenty-two kinds. / Likewise, prāṇa and the others, mutually overcome in due order— ### [1.167.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.48) the physician should understand the complete occlusion to be of twenty kinds as well. / Nausea, obstruction of respiration, coryza, headache, ### [1.167.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.49) heart disease, and dryness of the mouth occur when apāna is occluded by prāṇa. / When prāṇa is occluded by udāna, there occurs a loss of strength. ### [1.167.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.50) The physician should distinguish every occlusion through deliberation, / paying attention to the seats of the vāyus and the increase or decrease of their functions. ### [1.167.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.51) And of the five beginning with prāṇa, each may be mutually occluded by pitta; / the abode of pitta and the others \[is affected\] by them mixed together, ### [1.167.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.52) and likewise in various ways by mixed pitta and the others. / Being attentive, one should identify them from the arising of their respective symptoms, ### [1.167.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.53) and gradually by repeated, steady pacifications. / Prāṇa is especially spoken of as life, and udāna as strength; / by the affliction of those two, there would be loss of longevity and strength. ### [1.167.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.54) Occluded vāyus, whether unknown or known, when displaced from their locations, / become difficult to cure even with effort, or are without complications. ### [1.167.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.55) Abscess, spleen enlargement, heart disease, gulma, decline of the digestive fire, and so forth, / arise as complications due to neglect of those \[winds\] when occluded. ### [1.167.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.56) O Suśruta, the diagnosis spoken by Ātreya has been proclaimed by me / for distinguishing all diseases and for increasing the life span of humanity. ### [1.167.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.57) Having thus recognized diseases and their forms, one should then administer treatment. / Triphalā combined with honey, ghee, and jaggery cures all diseases; ### [1.167.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.58) or triphalā with tryūṣaṇa crushes all diseases; / or combined with śatāvarī, guḍūcī, citraka, and viḍaṅga; ### [1.167.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.59) śatāvarī, guḍūcī, citraka, dried ginger, mūṣalī, balā, / punarnavā, bṛhatī, nirguṇḍī, neem leaf, ### [1.167.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.60) bhṛṅgarāja, āmalaka, and vāsaka—triphalā macerated / with their juice seven times or once, ### [1.167.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.61) and as available mixed with the aforesaid: a powder, a sweet confection, / a pill, medicated ghee or oil, or a decoction cures consumptive diseases, / \[in the dose of\] a pala, half a pala, a karṣa, or half a karṣa. ### [1.167.61.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167.61.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-seventh chapter, on \[the diagnosis of\] vātarakta, in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.167.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.167) · Pramāṇa