Ashtangasamgraha 1.12

1.12

svaṃ svaṃ tantraṃ tataste 'pi cakrustāni kṛtāni ca |

gurūn saṃśrāvayāmāsuḥ sarṣisaṅghānsumedhasaḥ ||

viśeṣatastu ghṛtakṣīravadbhirmadhurauṣadhasaṃskāraiḥ puruṣam |

tailena nārīṃ pittalaiśca māṃsaiḥ |

evaṃ hi samānaguṇatayā śukrārtavamāpyāyate ||

tatra saṅkhyā tāvadaṣṭau jvarāstrividhaṃ raktapittaṃ pañca kāsā iti |

vikalpaḥ samavetānāṃ doṣāṇāmaṃśāṃśakalpanā |

prādhānyaṃ vyādhināmanubandhyānubandhakabhedāttaratamayogādvā doṣāṇām |

balābalaviśeṣo hetvādikārtsnyāvayavavibhāvanayā |

kālaviśeṣaḥ punardoṣāṇāmṛtvahorātryāhārasamayaniyataḥ prakopa iti |

etāvataiva samāsataḥ kathito nidānārthaḥ |

vistareṇa tu yathāsvaṃ pratirogamupadekṣyate ||

tṛṣṇagalpālpamuṣṇāmbu pibedvātakaphajvare ||

api ca ||

Then they too, being of fine intellect, composed their respective treatises; and having completed them, / they recited them to their teachers and to the assembly of sages.

Especially the man, with sweet drug preparations containing ghee and milk; / the woman with sesame oil and pitta-increasing meats.

For thus semen and menstrual fluid are nourished by identical qualities.

There, as to the classification: eight kinds of fever, three kinds of bleeding disorder, five kinds of cough, and so forth.

Vikalpa is the apportioned determination of the parts of the combined doṣas.

Prādhānya is the predominance of diseases depending on the distinction between primary and secondary, or on the comparative and superlative degree of the doṣas.

Balābalaviśeṣa is the distinction between strength and weakness through the determination of the entirety or the parts of the causes and so forth.

Kālaviśeṣa is the specific time of provocation of the doṣas determined by the season, day and night, and meal-times.

By this much alone the meaning of etiology has been stated in brief.

In detail, however, it will be taught for each respective disease.

One afflicted with thirst should drink warm water little by little in vātakapha fever.

Moreover: