Other Diseases

Other diseases are also in plenty of which eighty diseases are Vāta-oriented; Pitta-oriented are forty; and twenty are Kapha-oriented. There are ninety four classifications of eye diseases. Mouth-oriented diseases are seventy four. Head diseases are ten.

Apart from these, there are some more diseases created by the external and internal bacterias (VI.64):

mandāgnyutthodarasthamayasuhṛda udāvartabhedā āśītirvātotthāḥ pittajā viṃśatiyugagaṇitā viṃśatiḥ śleṣmajāśca |
catvāro'kṣṇorvasanto navatirapi catuḥsaptatirvaktraniṣṭhā mūrdhasthaḥ paṅktisaṃkhyāḥ kṛmigadanivaho'pyasti naike ca śophāḥ ||

Similarly there are twenty types of mental disorders (VI.64/65; p.382): bhūtonmādā viṃśatiḥ syuḥ |^[2]

These disorders are considered to be caused by sinful activities of the past and is known as 'āgantuka' (exogenous)

Above all these diseases is Āmavāta, which is four-fold as Vāta, Pitta, Kapha and Sannipāta.

Fainting is also six-fold as Vāta, Pitta, Kapha, Śoṇīta, Madhya (liquor) and Viṣa (poison) (VI.65):

āmavāta iti ko'pi caturdhā jāyate nikhilaroganivāsaḥ |
vātapittakaphaśoṇitamadyakṣveḍajā ṣaḍudayanti ca mūrchāḥ ||

Mental diseases are of six types (being caused by the doṣas of Vāta, Pitta, Kapha, Sannipāta, Viṣa and mental agony (VI. 66 ab):

ete ṣoḍhā bhinnā unmādāśca pravartante |^[1]

Heart diseases are five-folded (VI.66cd):

ābhivartante cāmī hṛdrogāḥ paṣcadhā bhinnāḥ ||^[3]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Śārṅgadharapaddhati, I. 7.37.

[2]:

Cf. Śārṅgadharapaddhati, I. 7. 38 a.

[3]:

ibid., I. 7.50 ab.