A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c25.233

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The last part of the chapter is about the unhealthy, respectively healthy effects of a sedentary life (āsyā),499 travelling (adhvan),500 walking (caṅkramaṇa)501 (12.84–85ab), the use of footwear (pādatra)502 and a parasol (chattra)503 (12.85cd–86ab), frequenting windy places (pravāta) and avoiding these (12.86cd–87ab);504 the effects of an easterly, westerly, southerly and northerly wind (12.87cd–90),505 followed by those of sunshine (ātapa) and shadow,506 darkness and moonlight (jyotsnā) (12.91).