Jaundice
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
jaundice · heart-glow · hāliknā
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A yellowing disease transferred by ritual color-magic into red cattle and yellow creatures and plants.
Let your heart-glow and your jaundice rise up following the sun.
and likewise into the turmeric-yellow plants we deposit your jaundice.
With red colours we envelop you round about for long life, so that you may be free of disease — be free of jaundice!
Aphorisms
A named disease condition (yellowing associated with liver/bile disorder)
Persons disposed to jaundice are not very subject to flatulence.
In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes indurated.