Hindu Medicine c8.102

c8.102

Acting as the digestive fire, the flame of bile is regular or fair, when the three humors are properly balanced. An excess of wind renders its flame uneven or irregular. It subsides when inundated by an excess of phlegm; through an abnormal increase of bile its action is unduly heightened. All these deviations are apt to produce diseases involving the various humors (Su. I, 35).