Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.73

c12.73

The obesity ( medas, medodoṣa, medovṛddhi ) originates from want of movement, sleeping by day and phlegmatic diet and causes accumulation of fat, particularly in abdomen, incapability for every work, short breathing and stagnation of breathing, thirst, delirium, sleepiness, weakness, desire for eating, bad smelling sweat, less tendency for cohabitation. In course of time it also causes dangerous diseases like erysipelas, fistula-in-ano, fever, diarrhoea, diabetes, haemorrhoids, elephantiasis, jaundice which lead to death. The treatment chiefly consists of regulation of diet and mode of life, hence walking, movement, cohabitation, marching, fatigue and the like are recommended ( MN 234 ff.; Vr 36; Bhāv 2.3.69 ff.; Vang 528-35. Cf. Su 1.15; Car 1.21 ).