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[[Sutra Sthana]] Chapter 28:
==([[Sutra Sthana]] Chapter 28, Chapter dealing with Different Types of Foods and Drinks)==
=== Abstract ===
=== Abstract ===
The twenty-eighth chapter of [[Sutra Sthana]] – Vividhashitapitiyamadhyaya - describes the principles of digestion and metabolism. The formation of tissue elements and byproducts during this process are explained in detail. Food is emphasized as the causative factor for preservation of health and occurrence of diseases. Apart from food, factors like habitat, season, combination, potency and excess consumption affecting the status of immunity and disease in the body have also been discussed here. The chapter explains why some people are healthy even after consuming unwholesome food articles while others suffer from diseases even after following wholesome food habits. This chapter also talks of diseases caused to vitiation of various tissue elements and factors responsible for the movement of dosha from koshtha (gut) to shakha (periphery). These factors are important for disease management.
The twenty-eighth chapter of [[Sutra Sthana]] – Vividhashitapitiyamadhyaya - describes the principles of digestion and metabolism. The formation of tissue elements and byproducts during this process are explained in detail. Food is emphasized as the causative factor for preservation of health and occurrence of diseases. Apart from food, factors like habitat, season, combination, potency and excess consumption affecting the status of immunity and disease in the body have also been discussed here. The chapter explains why some people are healthy even after consuming unwholesome food articles while others suffer from diseases even after following wholesome food habits. This chapter also talks of diseases caused to vitiation of various tissue elements and factors responsible for the movement of dosha from koshtha (gut) to shakha (periphery). These factors are important for disease management.
Keywords: Food, digestion, eatable, drinks, disorders of various systems, treatment, movement of dosha, koshtha, shakha.
'''Keywords''': Food, digestion, eatable, drinks, disorders of various systems, treatment, movement of dosha, koshtha, shakha.
=== Introduction ===
=== Introduction ===
Wholesome food is vital for the nourishment of human body, the creation of healthy tissues, maintenance of health, and for the prevention of diseases. Not following a wholesome food regimen causes vitiation of doshas. These doshas then reside within dhatus (tissue elements), upadhatus (tissues formed from the essence of dhatu during transformation process), or malas (metabolic wastes). In certain situations, the vitiated doshas get aggravated to cause diseases. The entire process is explained with clinical features of association of vitiated dosha with the respective pathogen. The causative factors for movement of dosha from the periphery to the gut and vice versa are important to understand the diseases and prescribe the appropriate purification processes. Digestion and assimilation are the most important physiological processes in the body. Any abnormality in this process results in the improper formation of the dhatu thus resulting in either deficiency or excessive formation of dhatus resulting in disorders. The causes for the movement of vitiated doshas from alimentary tract (koshtha) to the raktadi dhatu and skin (shakha) results in the occurrence of diseases. Moving the doshas back to alimentary tract (koshtha) and after that removing them eliminates diseases. The line of treatment of various diseases due to an abnormality in the dhatus is mentioned in this chapter. Thus, the chapter presents important aspects of food, digestion, metabolism, immunity, diseases of affected tissues, and guidelines for their treatment.
Wholesome food is vital for the nourishment of human body, the creation of healthy tissues, maintenance of health, and for the prevention of diseases. Not following a wholesome food regimen causes vitiation of doshas. These doshas then reside within dhatus (tissue elements), upadhatus (tissues formed from the essence of dhatu during transformation process), or malas (metabolic wastes). In certain situations, the vitiated doshas get aggravated to cause diseases. The entire process is explained with clinical features of association of vitiated dosha with the respective pathogen. The causative factors for movement of dosha from the periphery to the gut and vice versa are important to understand the diseases and prescribe the appropriate purification processes. Digestion and assimilation are the most important physiological processes in the body. Any abnormality in this process results in the improper formation of the dhatu thus resulting in either deficiency or excessive formation of dhatus resulting in disorders. The causes for the movement of vitiated doshas from alimentary tract (koshtha) to the raktadi dhatu and skin (shakha) results in the occurrence of diseases. Moving the doshas back to alimentary tract (koshtha) and after that removing them eliminates diseases. The line of treatment of various diseases due to an abnormality in the dhatus is mentioned in this chapter. Thus, the chapter presents important aspects of food, digestion, metabolism, immunity, diseases of affected tissues, and guidelines for their treatment.
=== The original text, transliteration, and translation ===
===Sanskrit text, transliteration and english translation===
२८. विविधाशितपीतीयोऽध्यायः
२८. विविधाशितपीतीयोऽध्यायः