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associate these with the fruition of different karmas---a very crude answer to the modern man. Material karmas must be curable by material medicine and intentional changes.
Table 7. Some Consciousness-obscuring Diseases and Their Treatments
Disease
Feeble mind
1
2
3
4
7
5 Alcoholism
8
Defective
memory
Some more cases
6
9
Cretinism.
10
Epilepsy
T. B., Cancer,
Diabetes,
Heart
diseases etc. Violence, anger etc.
Corruption
Long fasting
and holy
death
Caste system
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Karmic cause
Realisation of
knowledgeobscuring
karma
15
Enjoyment potency/
Knowledge
obscuring
Delusion,
Knowledge
obscuring
Pain-feeling/ Potency
obscuring
karma
C. Deluding karma
Sacred/ Sinful
karmas, C.D.
karmas
Sacred karmas,
Physiquemaking karma
Status
determining karma
Diagnosis
(i) Genetic/ Environmental
(ii) Anoxia (iii)
Phenyl
Pyruvic acid
Neuron
stimulated RNA
changes
Deficiency of
thyroid hormone Disturbance in
temporal lobe of brain
Cooling effect, Liver damage
Brain nerves
Anxiety, Food
habits, Over work
etc.
Less or more of adrenal hormones
Social and
political
environment Genetic sermons,
examples
Social order, Religious saints, sermons, vested interests
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Treatment
Glutamic acid Thiamine
Food suppl.
Indirect
medicines,
Brahmi, Śankhapuspi
Thyroxin therapy
Gardinol, Dilantine, Apasmāravați
Antabuse Apāmarga
herb
Manifold meditation, surgery, electric shocks, transplants
Serotonin,
Meditation, Secretion control through change of food habits. Moral education, Definite penalisation on offences. Accumulation of
internal energy through meditation
etc.
Proper provision for progress, tendency of renunciation.
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