Hindu Medicine c7.114

c7.114

The principal diseases which occur in Vedic medical texts, more or less clearly discernible as to their nature and relation to those mentioned in subsequent classic tradition, are: fever (takman), diarrhoea (āsrāva), cough (kāsa), consumption (balāsa, yakṣma), dropsy (jalodara), sores (apacit), abscess (vidradha), tumor (akṣata), leprosy and skin-diseases (kilāsa), inherited diseases (kṣetriya) and “seizures” by various demons.