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causative factors. It’s either a sexual transmission or a
parenteral transmission which helps to understand the
cause as well as to make the prognosis.
Poorva Roopa
in
this is an HIV positive status or opportunitistic infection,
which is an indication of reduced resistance or immunitiy
power. That again conforms that you’re going to the
correct diagnosis of AIDS. Then actual
Roopa
, whether
it is either fatigue or vomiting or nausea or wasting are
conditions associated with the Roopa of AIDS . Upasaya
of course is in these days it is just sending the patients
for an Elisa test or some other investigation to find
whether the HIV is positive or negative.
Samprapti
is
that with which you to trace a pathological process for
that particular condition and which will eventually help
to develop a treatment strategy in two ways.
One to be very symptomatic, treating for all
the conditions like diarrhea and other infections like
a respiratory infection. The second way is to try some
disease modifying methods to improve the agni or the
digestive process, ojas or the ultimate energy, . This is the
way a new disease is understood.
A very broad disease classification is presented
here. We are talking from a holistic perspective and
it is from
Susruta Samhita
which covering almost all
categories of diseases., Broadly, it is
adhyatmika
which
has one’s internal own causes,
adibhautika
is that due
