Hindu Medicine c8.176

c8.176

This distribution applies equally to the four constituents of the body, wind, bile, phlegm, and blood, regardless of the prevalence of one or the other of them in the upper, middle or lower part of the trunk. In this abstract scheme attention is paid, however, to the specific energy of the bile localized in the eyes, since it is assumed that ten vessels carry bile in the eyes, instead of eight, as is the case with wind, phlegm, and blood respectively; these ten vessels serve the activity of bile in imparting lustre and energy to the eyes.