Charak Samhita

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सप्त द्रव्याणि कुष्ठानां प्रकृतिर्विकृतिमापन्नानि भवन्ति| तद्यथा- त्रयो दोषा वातपित्तश्लेष्माणः प्रकोपणविकृताः, दूष्याश्च शरीरधातवस्त्वङ्मांसशोणितलसीकाश्चतुर्धा दोषोपघातविकृता इति| एतत् सप्तानां सप्तधातुकमेवङ्गतमाजननं कुष्ठानाम्, अतःप्रभवाण्यभिनिर्वर्तमानानि केवलं शरीरमुपतपन्ति ||३||

sanskrit

[Pathogenic factors in kushtha] The pathology of skin diseases origin from the deranged physiology of seven factors connected to skin. They are vata, pitta and kapha doshas in aggravated state and dhatus, namely, tvak (the word tvak represents skin. Since the skin is organ in which rasa dhatu is present, tvak word is used instead of rasa dhatu ), mamsa, shonita and lasika that get deranged due to aggravated dosha. So seven type of kushtha are manifested by these seven morbid factors. Thus preliminary and manifested kushtha gradually afflicts the whole body.

english translation

sapta dravyANi kuSThAnAM prakRtirvikRtimApannAni bhavanti| tadyathA- trayo doSA vAtapittazleSmANaH prakopaNavikRtAH, dUSyAzca zarIradhAtavastvaGmAMsazoNitalasIkAzcaturdhA doSopaghAtavikRtA iti| etat saptAnAM saptadhAtukamevaGgatamAjananaM kuSThAnAm, ataHprabhavANyabhinirvartamAnAni kevalaM zarIramupatapanti ||3||

hk transliteration