Charak Samhita

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अथ चेज्ज्ञातयस्तस्य याचेरन् प्रणिपाततः| रसेनाद्यादिति ब्रूयान्नास्मै दद्याद्विशोधनम् ||१६||

sanskrit

If the relatives of the patient request the physician begging for his life, the physician should prescribe the diet of soup prepared out of meat; but purification therapy (shodhana) should not be done in such patient as it will further deteriorate the condition.

english translation

atha cejjJAtayastasya yAceran praNipAtataH| rasenAdyAditi brUyAnnAsmai dadyAdvizodhanam ||16||

hk transliteration

मासेन चेन्न दृश्येत विशेषस्तस्य शोभनः| रसैश्चान्यैर्बहुविधैर्दुर्लभं तस्य जीवितम् ||१७||

sanskrit

If after one month, no signs of improvement as the result of soup prepared out of meat and varied other nutritive agents are seen, then the patient’s survival is rare.

english translation

mAsena cenna dRzyeta vizeSastasya zobhanaH| rasaizcAnyairbahuvidhairdurlabhaM tasya jIvitam ||17||

hk transliteration

निष्ठ्यूतं च पुरीषं च रेतश्चाम्भसि मज्जति| यस्य तस्यायुषः प्राप्तमन्तमाहुर्मनीषिणः ||१८||

sanskrit

[Poor prognosis based on sputum, stool and semen test] If a man’s sputum, feces and semen sink into water, the wise physicians say that he has come to the end of his life.

english translation

niSThyUtaM ca purISaM ca retazcAmbhasi majjati| yasya tasyAyuSaH prAptamantamAhurmanISiNaH ||18||

hk transliteration

निष्ठ्यूते यस्य दृश्यन्ते वर्णा बहुविधाः पृथक्| तच्च सीदत्यपः प्राप्य न स जीवितुमर्हति ||१९||

sanskrit

[Poor prognosis based on discoloration of sputum] If the sputum has various color and sinks in water, the patient does not survive.

english translation

niSThyUte yasya dRzyante varNA bahuvidhAH pRthak| tacca sIdatyapaH prApya na sa jIvitumarhati ||19||

hk transliteration

पित्तमूष्मानुगं यस्य शङ्खौ प्राप्य विमूर्च्छति | स रोगः शङ्खको नाम्ना त्रिरात्राद्धन्ति जीवितम् ||२०||

sanskrit

[Poor prognosis in shankhaka] The morbid condition in which the pitta, reaches up to temporal area and accumulates there, is known by the name of Shankhaka. It kills the patient in three nights.

english translation

pittamUSmAnugaM yasya zaGkhau prApya vimUrcchati | sa rogaH zaGkhako nAmnA trirAtrAddhanti jIvitam ||20||

hk transliteration