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independent (or separate) faults are not felt at the places pressed under separate fingers.
Some other Pandits say that at first there is the movement of bile (fire or pitta), in the middle there is the movement, of phlegm andlast that of air (vayu) is felt. But this view also is not proper because it has been said everywhere that the movement of bile is felt in the middle. If the pulse of a healthy person is examined, the movement of bile is felt in the middle. Moreover, if the movement of bile is accepted first, there takes place the defect (or fault) of asadhyata (incurability) because the movement of bile has been stated first in the case of the symptoms of incurability.
It appears that the word has been written to establish (or prove) incurability, or the movement of bile (pittagati) has first been stated by observing the time of bile (pittakala); because at the time of agitation or derangement of bile the movement of bile may be first felt due to the intensity of bile.
There is also another such statement “Vatadhikanadi agre, slesmadhikanadi madhye and pittadhikanadi ante vahante".
That is to say, the pulse of excess air flows first, the pulse of excess phlegm flows in the middle and the pulse of intense bile flows last.
This is not true. Three kinds of symptom of the pulse are observed in the case of typhoid fever
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