but modifications of their own qualities, so the three fundamental bodily humours underlie at the root of, and run through, the course of all known forms of bodily distemper.
The deranged bodily humours (Dosha) in contact with the different elements, (Dháthu) and excrements (Mala) of the body, together with the difference of their locations and pathological effects, give rise to the different forms of disease.*[1]
The nomenclature of a disease depends upon where the affection of the several elementary principles of the body by the deranged bodily humours lies, and which is accordingly styled as it is seated in the lymph-chyle, or in the blood or the flesh, or it is in fat, bone, or in the semen.
Rasaja Distempers:—Distempers such as aversion to, and loss of relish for food, indigestion, aching in the limbs, fever, nausea and a sense of repletion even without food, heaviness of the limbs, diseases affecting the heart, jaundice, constriction of any internal passage of the body (Márgo-parodha), emaciation of the body (cachexia), bad taste in the mouth, weak feelings in the limbs, premature whiteness and falling off of the hair, and symptoms indicative of senile decay, should be regarded as having their seat in the deranged lymph-chyle (Rasa).
- ↑ *This answers the question, "how can the deranged bodily humours bring about a disease of the Adhi-vala-type—a disease which is specifically due to the derangement of the innate and primary factors of life."
