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Important Ayurveda Dictums (Post No.12,436)
There are some important Ayurveda (Hindu Medical System) sayings in Sanskrit slokas that everyone should know.
On immunity
Immunity in the body functions in two ways;
Vyaadhik samatvam or vyaadhyapadapratibandhakatvam
Cakrapaanidatta in his commentary on Caraka Samhita says Vyaadhik samatvam vyaadhibala virodhitvam
Vyaadhyutpada prati bandhakatvam Ca.Sa.26-27
Meaning
Gives immunity by providing forthwith the resistance to a disease it may be produced
Or
It may provide the type of resistance by minimising its power so that the disease may not be harmful even if it has started.
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Simile in Caraka Samhita
Just as seed remains dormant in the soil and grows after sometime , so also the provoked dosa (eliological factors like bacteria) remains dormant in the body tissues and when it becomes powerful it produces disease.
Adhisite yathaa bhuumimdijam kala ca rohati
Adhisite tathaa dhaatum dosah kole ca kupyati
3-68
Meaning
It explains that the bacteria, however harmful they may be, cannot do any harm until they get proper soil and nutrition in due time.
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On diet/ pathya control
There is one couplet in Saarakaumudi 2-1
Disease sometimes, without any specific drug can be checked through proper diets only, but they can never be cured by the application of hundreds of medicines if there is no proper diet.
rogopi bhesajair vinaa pathyaad eva nivartate
na tu pattyaahbihiinasya bhasajanansatair api
— Saarakaumudi 2-1
—subham—
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