Hindu Medicine c8.169

c8.169

When these vessels grow irritated, the constituents of the body which abide in their places or move along their ways grow irritated, too. This irritation spreads from one kind of vessel to the others. Vessels harm vessels, and constituents harm constituents, when irritated. Wind, bile and phlegm, however, harm and irritate all other constituents; they are “harmers” (doṣa) by nature.