A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c13.187

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When staying in their normal seats and functioning together, they perform their functions, thus sustaining the body and preserving its healthy state (28.5–11);781 when moving on a wrong path and being deranged, they afflict the body with disorders relating to their seats and actions, and may quickly take life away. Although the disorders they bring about are innumerable, the main ones, i.e., the eighty disorders beginning with cracking of the nails (nakhabheda), have been mentioned in the Sūtra(sthāna).782 They will now be described, along with their causes and treatment, with regard to vāyu, both when singly (affected) in a particular seat and when covered (āvṛta) (by another doṣa) (28.12–14).