A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c10.2

v1.c10.2

Chapter two, called trividhakukṣīya, is concerned with: the appropriate quantities of articles of diet (2.3–7); the causes of corruption of āma;⁷ the diseases resulting from this corruption: visūcikā,⁸ alasaka,⁹ daṇḍālasaka and āmaviṣa;¹⁰ their pathogenesis, symptoms and treatment (2.8–14);¹¹ the āmāśaya, lying between navel and nipples, as the place where the food is digested (2.15–18).