Hindu Medicine c5.s3.94

c5.s3.94

As long as the disease affects only the three or four first stages into which the life-essence of the organism is gradually transformed, blood, skin and flesh, it may be conquered. If it reaches the subsequent stages of metabolism, the more vital and subtle transformations of life substance, namely the bones, marrow and semen, the disease is beyond cure. That is why Hindu medicine insists on early treatment. The morbid matter which at first upsets blood, skin and flesh will invariably reach the more vital layers of the organism through the very alchemy of nature which constantly refines these primitive transformations into the higher ones.