The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.20

c13.20

¹ The experience of heating the phlegm and of subsequently testing it after having tasted it before could have been carried out. The manual *On Flesh*, 4, prescribes to cook the tissues to appraise the properties. But the phlegmatic secretions (mucosity for example) are salty before being cooked. It should, therefore, be a theoretical opinion and not an experimental statement.