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=== Applied aspect ===
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Tamas is involved as an essential pathogenic factor in some diseases given below.
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# Intoxication, psychoneurosis (mada)
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# Unconsciousness (murccha)
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# Extreme alcoholism (madatayaya)
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# Coma (sanyasa)
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# Insanity (unmada)
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# Epilepsy (apasmara)
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# Intellectual defects (prajnaparadha)
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# Hallucination, delusion, obsession, illusion (attatvabhinivesha)
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# Lust (kama)
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# Confusion (moha)
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# Grief (shoka)
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# Depression (vishada)
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# Drowsiness (tandra)<ref name="ref4">Kumar Jitendra1, Gond Pushpa, Byadgi P.S.31Junior Resident. Critical evaluation of manas roga in ayurveda. Indian Journal of Agriculture and Allied Sciences. 2015 Jun 27;106-107. ISSN 2395-1109 Volume: 1, No.: 2.</ref>
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== Psychiatric features related to tamas ==
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<div style='text-align:justify;'><ol><li style="font-weight:bold">Delusion: <span style="font-weight:normal">It is a false belief based on incorrect inferences. This symptom is usually seen in schizophrenia.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:bold">Hallucinations: <span style="font-weight:normal">It isa false perception by special senses without any external stimulus. Hallucination may be seen in insanity, high-grade fever, & in drug poisoning.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:bold">Illusion: <span style="font-weight:normal">It is the false perception by the special senses of external stimuli.</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:bold">Impulse: <span style="font-weight:normal">A sudden desire to do something without external stimuli or thinking about the result. usually this character is seen in dementia, epilepsy etc </span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:bold">Obsession: <span style="font-weight:normal">Excessive thoughts, ideas, or emotions that cannot be eliminated logically</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:bold">Lucid internal: <span style="font-weight:normal">It is the period at which all signs and symptoms of insanity are not visible, and the person's behavior looks healthy.<ref name="ref5">Gautam Biswas,Review of forensic medicine and toxicology , 2nd edition chapter 29 page number 353-35. Jaypee brothers medical publishers (p) limited.</ref>
== References ==
== References ==