A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c8.161

v1.c8.161

Chapter twenty-eight, called vividhāśitapītīya, deals with a variety of subjects: the formation of constituents of the body from the four kinds of food ingested (28.3–5);701 the factors, apart from wholesome or unwholesome food, which influence the appearance, severity and course of diseases (28.6–7);702 the diseases arising when the doṣas affect one of the seven elements of the body (28.9–19),703 the sense organs (28.20),704 ligaments (snāyu), vessels (sirā) and tendons (kaṇḍarā) (28.21), and the malas (28.22);705 the treatment of these diseases (28.23–30); the movement of the doṣas from the trunk (koṣṭha) to peripheral parts (śākhā) of the body, and vice versa (28.31–33); the differences in behaviour with regard to food between those who are sensible and those who are foolish (28.34–44).