Hindu Medicine c8.206

c8.206

This essence drawn from food in the form of chyle turns first into blood and through a gradual self-transformation of its inherent life-bearing qualities supplies sustenance to all layers of the organism, fluid, semi-firm and solid. Through transformation from one substance into the next (in this order: blood into flesh, flesh into fat, fat into bones, bones into marrow, and so on) it becomes an ever more concentrated essence, until finally it reaches the most condensed and vigorous form of life-energy, semen.