[translation-san] {LCh,MSA} vāyu

[translation-san] {LCh} prāṇa

[translation-san] {LCh} vāta

[translation-san] {C} samīraṇa

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} wind; wind (element - vāyu); wind (vital energy - prāṇa)

[translation-eng] {C} air

[definition-bod] mtshan nyidyang zhing g.yo ba/

[definition-eng] light and moving

[comments] Comment: This is one of the four great elements ('byung bar gyur pa'i reg bya, tangible objects which are elements): earth (sa), water (chu), fire (me), and wind (rlung). In the Buddhist medical system, wind is one of the three problematics (nyes pa; dośa), often mistranslated as ""humours,"" but the ""humours"" are fluids as in the four elemental fluids of the body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. In Buddhist medicine the three problematics, which, when in balance, promote health and, when imbalanced, promote disease, are wind (rlung), bile (mkhris pa), and phlegm (pad kan).

• [bod] rlung mkhris bad kan 'dus pa'i nad chen
• [eng] the great diseases of the assembly of wind, bile, and phlegm {GZ 69a.3}