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ebhyashcaivApathyAhAraDoṣasharIravisheShebhyo vyAdhayo mRudavo dAruNAHkShipRasamutthAshcirakAriNashca bhavanti|  

ebhyashcaivApathyAhAraDoṣasharIravisheShebhyo vyAdhayo mRudavo dAruNAHkShipRasamutthAshcirakAriNashca bhavanti|  

ta eva VātaPittashleShmANaH sthānavisheShe prakupitAvyAdhivisheShAnabhinirvartayantyagnivesha!||7||  

ta eva VātaPittashleShmANaH sthānavisheShe prakupitAvyAdhivisheShAnabhinirvartayantyagnivesha!||7||  

 

Lord Atreya replied, "An individual consuming wholesome food will not get afflicted with disease due to the food. Intake of wholesome food alone is not the causative factor for a disease or can it prevent diseases. Apart from unwholesome food, there are many other etiological factors that lead to a disease, such as changes in season, intellectual errors, unwholesome contacts, excessive, wrong and overutilization of senses of sound, touch, vision, taste and smell. These etiological factors can cause diseases in an individual despite wholesome intake of ''rasa'' and diet. Hence, an individual taking wholesome food has also been observed to have taken ill. Similarly, consuming unwholesome diet does not immediately produce untoward effects. All unwholesome food articles are not equally harmful, all the ''doshas'' are not of equal strength, and all the bodies are not capable of preventing disease. Unwholesome food can be more harmful depending upon the habitat, season, combination, potency, and intake in excessive quantity. The ''doshas'' become acute and extremely difficult to manage when they get associated with multiple factors, treated with wrong therapies, become deep rooted, chronic, get vitiated in one of the ten seats of ''prana'', and when they afflict vital centers within the body known as ''marma''. Individuals, who are excessively obese, emaciated, whose muscles, blood, bones are depleted, who are very weak physically, who are habituated to consuming unwholesome food, who take in inadequate quantities of food, and who have very weak mind cannot withstand diseases. Contrary to this, individuals having opposite qualities to the ones mentioned above are capable of resisting diseases. Thus, unwholesome diet, ''doshas'', and body constitution factors produce diseases of mild, severe, acute and chronic nature. [7]

Lord Atreya replied, "An individual consuming wholesome food will not get afflicted with disease due to the food. Intake of wholesome food alone is not the causative factor for a disease or can it prevent diseases. Apart from unwholesome food, there are many other etiological factors that lead to a disease, such as changes in season, intellectual errors, unwholesome contacts, excessive, wrong and overutilization of senses of sound, touch, vision, taste and smell. These etiological factors can cause diseases in an individual despite wholesome intake of ''rasa'' and diet. Hence, an individual taking wholesome food has also been observed to have taken ill. Similarly, consuming unwholesome diet does not immediately produce untoward effects. All unwholesome food articles are not equally harmful, all the ''doshas'' are not of equal strength, and all the bodies are not capable of preventing disease. Unwholesome food can be more harmful depending upon the habitat, season, combination, potency, and intake in excessive quantity. The ''doshas'' become acute and extremely difficult to manage when they get associated with multiple factors, treated with wrong therapies, become deep rooted, chronic, get vitiated in one of the ten seats of ''prana'', and when they afflict vital centers within the body known as ''marma''. Individuals, who are excessively obese, emaciated, whose muscles, blood, bones are depleted, who are very weak physically, who are habituated to consuming unwholesome food, who take in inadequate quantities of food, and who have very weak mind cannot withstand diseases. Contrary to this, individuals having opposite qualities to the ones mentioned above are capable of resisting diseases. Thus, unwholesome diet, ''doshas'', and body constitution factors produce diseases of mild, severe, acute and chronic nature. [7]

==== Description of diseases affecting various ''dhatu'' (tissue) ====

==== Description of diseases affecting various ''dhatu'' (tissue) ====