Hindu Medicine c8.175

c8.175

Of these hundred and seventy-five vessels, a hundred are assigned to the four extremities; twenty-five to each arm and leg respectively. Of the remaining seventy-five, forty-one are located above the collar bone, the other thirty-four belong to the trunk. Of those in the head and neck, fourteen are found in the neck; four in the ears; nine in the tongue; six in the nose; eight in both eyes. Of the thirty-four located in the trunk, ten form part of the chest, six serve the back and six the belly; two are found in each side, eight in the loins, attached to the anus and the genital organ.