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This quantity brings jointly decisions from the Sanskrit classics of the Ayurveda physicians Caraka, Susruta, Kasyapa, Vagabhata and Sarngadhara who stay among the mid-first millennium BC and the fourteenth century advert.
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6 above. These characteristics, 'oily, warm, light' are not general terms, but form part of the twenty-fold formal classification of qualities that is used in ayurveda. See p. 251 below. 52 53 10 12 ,,, ' CARAKA'S COMPENDIUM THE ROOTS OF AYURVEDA Suppressing tears leads to rheum, eye disease, chest ailments, loss of appetite, and dizziness. In such a case, apply sleep, wine, and enjoyable tales. Suppressing sleep leads to yawning, bruising of the limbs, sleepiness, headaches, and heaviness of the eyes.
When Lord Atreya had said this, Agnivda said to him, 'Suppose medicines have been gathered, correctly prescribed, and correctly administered. ' Lord Atreya said this to him, 'It is true that people are different, Agnivda, as far as the conditions of their constitution and 79 THE CARAKA'S COMPENDIUM RooTs oF AYURVEDA so forth are concerned. But there are other conditions which are in common. When these become discordant, diseases arise at the same time and with the same characteristics, and they cause the epidemic destruction of a locality.
Is particularly vivid and pleasing. It is interesting too that he traces the fall of man to a primal act of greed on the part of the rich. This does not seem, prima facie, to be an account that would emerge from the dominant classes of a society! Equally fascinating are the reflections in this chapter on the predetermination of lifespan, and the list of patients who should not be treated by a physician. The latter point requin;s special comment. The ayurvedic physician in fact adhered to a high set of moral 48 CARAKA'S COMPENDIUM standards, as laid out particularly in Caraka's 'Oath of Initiation' which has often been compared with the Hippocratic Oath.