Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c10.24

c10.24

The same pathological effect as that of the *tridoṣas* is attributed to the blood as well, cf. § 33. According to Su 1.21 derangements of blood are caused by the derangement of *pitta* and by frequent use of liquid, oily and heavy food, sleep by day, anger, fire, sunheat, fatigue, wounds, indigestion, unharmonious or excessively eaten food and the like; similarly Car 1.24. Fifteen kinds of derangements occur according to Su 1.c.15 from the derangements of the *tridoṣas* and the blood, individually or in various combinations. According to Car 1.24.4 all the diseases that are curable in themselves and which resist the application of remedies that are cold and hot, oily and dry, and similar other remedies, are caused by deranged blood (*raktaja*). The derangements of other six *dhātus* (Cf. § 34) also cause analogous effects. Thus spoiled *rasa* brings about loss of appetite, gout, fever, impotency, thinness and other diseased conditions; spoiled flesh brings about swelling of gums, tumour, goitre etc.; spoiled fat brings about abnormal height or abnormal dwarfishness, abnormal fatness or abnormal leanness etc.; spoiled bones bring about exostosis, caries, various diseases of teeth etc.; spoiled marrow brings about swoon, giddiness, pain in joints etc.; spoiled sperm brings about impotency or infirmity of children or miscarriage etc. (Car 1.28; Su 1.24). Similarly various stages of many diseases, e. g. kuṣṭha (§ 68), are explained by their place in various dhātus.