Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c9.26

c9.26

Every medicine further possesses its own power (*virya*) : hot or cold. This is the usual doctrine, yet Su I. c. mentions a different theory according to which there are eight kinds of virya : hot, cold, oily or softening, dry or desicative, clear or purifying, slippery, mild and pungent.