Hindu Medicine c8.93

c8.93

The three humors are, as it were, three rich individualities with markedly antagonistic characters. They are full of personality and behave like human or divine beings. When they grow “incensed” or “infuriated” (prakupita), they cause havoc in the body by invading the domain of the others. It needs much skill to appease them again, to reduce them in their excess, to quiet them down in their violence.