Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.74

c12.74

Thinness ( kārśya ) arises from dry or insufficient diet, fasts, overexertion, suppression of necessary sleep, cohabitation, grief, sorrow, chronic illness and the like and leads to enlargement of spleen and swelling of body, cough, consumption, asthma, haemorrhoids and other difficult diseases. Congenital thinness is incurable; for acquired thinness substantial and strength-giving things, aphrodisiacs and the like should be given ( Bhāv 2.3.75 ff. Cf. Su 1.15; Car 1.21 ).