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तैलाभ्यङ्गे च सुप्ते च तथा च भोजनान्तरे । # Te rua ATST TOTT TAĦT ACT 11 (V.2)
The pulse is not (correctly) known (under stood) at the time of rubbing oil (on the body of the patient), during (his) sleep, at his meal-time and just after his meal, for as the river having terrible current is very difficult to be stopped (held), just so it is difficult to determine the movement of the pulse of a patient at those times. It is also said in other medical sciences (tantras) that the movement of the pulse is not fully understood just immediately after bath or meal or at the time of appetite or thirst, at the heated condition in the sunshine and in a tired body due to exercise.
अथ वातादि स्वभावक्रममाह Next the nature of the course of the vata, etc. (i. e. the natural course of the faults of air, bile and phlegm) is stated:--
प्रादौ च वहते वातो मध्ये पित्तं तथैव च ।
are a aed gãoht arfe#1747917 (V.3) First flow vata (air), in the middle flows pitta (bile or fire), just like that at the end flows slesma (phlegm). These are the symptoms of three pulses. (V.3)
In the begining it has been said that at the time of examining the pulse the physician, placing the hand of the patient to be examined on his own left hand, slightly bent, should always examine the pulse of the patient by pressing the pulse of the patient,
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