Hindu Medicine c7.186

c7.186

Then again, the chancellor’s staff might be disrupted. His three main functionaries, controlling the capital of the body, are the three humors, Wind (vāyu), Bile (pitta), and Phlegm (kapha). Since Bile and Phlegm are lame, they have to be carried by the Wind on their errands through the departments of the organism. Their cooperative harmony is easily upset by wrong diet, or by drugs, which disturb the proper balance of the humors.