56 Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. 
eet taste, and increases the quantity of phlegm. Afterwards, bein, 
digested by the aid of bile, taking a hot and sour taste, it baer: ui 
Afterwards, by the aid of the air or wind that conveys an equal heat to 
ac whole body a Sens aac or feeces being eaeenter and takhig a bitter 
, it gene win The feces shrip a ig into thick (or 
slid) ee thin oe ftaid) parts, become ordure and u 
chyle, ain bated passed by nine oie ‘rom stomach into 
the Meee: it becom changes “pe blood; afte ceeria ike essively, it 
is transformed int i: flesh and the seven a ag of the bo y: 
2ndly. The hurtful, things or bad hu rs. These are three: wind, 
bile, bra phlegm, each with a five-fold divisi 
. Of Wind. The life-keeping wind or air ie vohide ti in the upper par 
of bs head ; that which os en upwards, has its place in the breast; 
that which pervades or encompasses all, resides in the heart ; that which 
communicates or onvVeys an equal he at to the body, has its seat in the 
a ae ach ; that witch leeinas downwards, abides in bis lower part of the 
ru 
2. Of Bile. The digesting bile resides in the stomach, between the 
digested and indigested hai that which forms the chyle, resides in the 
live: er ; that which res pr increases, in the rer inage Be thas, elit assist 
” Of : Pisce The supporting phlegm Specie in bd breast ; pe 
masticatory, in the indigested part; the tasting, on the ongue ; the 
freshing (or that makes con barred in the head; the conj nee or See 
ting, ic in every Juncture or ie nt). 
The characteristic si the above- as hanes t of 
wind ; roughness, lightness, aes mallness, and 
_ That of bile ; unctuousness, suaeenehe etnies, yen ts *depuratory 
mo 
“That of phlegm: unctuousness, coolness, heaviness, and dulness, soft- 
ness, or gentleness, steadiness, esion, passionateness. 
hapter.—On tho works or action of the body. These are the 
u seases- 
The basis has a triple division. Age also has the same number ; that of 
nature or native disposition, has seven, With respect as disease, the dis- 
tinctions are : shar gra and absence of as tate. 
th Cha eee —On the tokens of Da edtion M2 approaching 5 
of a 
of the body: 1 - Tokens of a far distant death. 
tain, ; okens of death Dicaat poxivety e: any 
envoy (of death), dream, and change (by age), &c. ; the near tokens are 
rom a sickness, one may live yet many years. Certain 
tokens, as, when the disease i is incrratla. ¥ rs 
A physician should be well acqu sags with the tokens of death; 
that he may know whintiee the patient be curable or incurable, and 
perform his medical service accordin ngly. 
8th Chapter.—On nee increasing and decreasing state of sic ick 
Here is ented of the causes and accessory causes of the disease; the 
manner of its origin ; the idee part ; the character and distinctions of 
the a of each. 
rst. The causes are proximate, — ae 
_ Oth ne ose mre three soc ssory causes that depend on br 
primary causes: the originating and vapresding, “the gathering together 
and arising ; and the pe away of the disease. 
FOE hoo Chapter.—On the manner in which any disease takes place in 
llth Chapter.—On the character of di 
a perplexed, disease 
increasing, 
diminishing, and ecient savers ‘of which are to be 
