Therefore, intelligent physicians first seek to allay the mental sufferings of their patients by agreeable conversations and by the offer of desirable objects.
मतिमन्तो ह्यतो वैद्याः शमं प्रागेव कुर्वते। मानसस्य प्रियाख्यानैः सम्भोगोपनयैर्नृणाम्॥