The son of Atri, famed for his sagaciousness, tranquility, austerity and devoted to the wellness of the world, expounded the chapter therapeutics of morbid thirst.
[Etio-pathogenesis] As a result of shock/excess distress, fear, fatigue, grief, anger, extreme starvation, alcoholism, regular use of alkaline and sour substances, use of excessive salt, pungent, salty, dry and dehydrated food, emaciation due to excessive loss of basic body forming elements and emaciation due to disease,
excessive use of purifactory procedures, excessive exposure to sunlight, pitta and vata get severely vitiated and dry up the watery contents of the body.