Charak Samhita

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यथास्वं स्वं च पुष्णन्ति देहे द्रव्यगुणाः पृथक्| पार्थिवाः पार्थिवानेव शेषाः शेषांश्च कृत्स्नशः||१४||

sanskrit

Specific categories of entities in the body having specific attributes can be nourished by only those substances that belong to the same category having those same attributes. This means that parthiva entities in the body (one that is dominated by prithvi mahabhuta in its composition) can be nourished only by the parthiva substances in the food and so on. The same rule applies to the whole body

english translation

yathAsvaM svaM ca puSNanti dehe dravyaguNAH pRthak| pArthivAH pArthivAneva zeSAH zeSAMzca kRtsnazaH||14||

hk transliteration