The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.11
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.11
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The white phlegm (defined in 83 d as mixed with bubbles of air) is dangerous if the air of the bubbles contained by it is retained in the body; it is less dangerous, if the air goes out, but then the skin gets spots of white (85 a). If the phlegm gets mixed up with black bile and troubles the "extremely divine revolutions" which occur in the head, there can be produced the disease called the sacred one because it appertains to the sacred substance in us.¹ The sour and salty phlegm produces extremely diverse catarrhal diseases.