Talk:bikh

Also obsolete Indian word for altitude sickness?

Hobson-Jobson (1903) states that bikh is "also applied in the Himālaya to the effect of the rarefied atmosphere at great heights on the body, an effect which there and over Central Asia is attributed to poisonous emanations from the soil, or from plants; a doctrine somewhat naïvely accepted by Huc in his famous narrative". Equinox ◑ 09:25, 20 March 2024 (UTC)