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# Ashtangasamgraha 1.36

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 1.36

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.36)

tridhā vipāko dravyasya svādvamlakaṭukātmakaḥ |  
  
gurumandahimasnigdhaślakṣṇasāndramṛdusthirāḥ ||  
  
tathā kṣīrādimadhurāṇāmupayogānmāturudakavihārācca gauratā tilānnavidāhinā kṛṣṇatā |  
  
vyāmiśrāṇāṃ śyāmatā |  
  
deśakulānuvṛttitaśca varṇabhedaḥ ||  
  
koṣṭhe vibaddhe saruji pibettu parikartini ||  
  
śucidhautopavānāni nirvalīni mṛdūni ca ||

> The post-digestive effect of a substance is threefold, consisting of sweet, sour, and pungent.  
> Heavy, slow, cold, unctuous, smooth, dense, soft, and stable;  
> likewise, fair complexion arises from the use of sweet things such as milk and the mother's water sports; dark complexion arises from food of sesame and burning things;  
> sallow complexion arises from mixed things;  
> and variation of complexion arises from conformity to region and family.  
> When the abdomen is constipated, painful, and has cutting pains, one should drink \[it\].  
> Clean, washed, blown by the wind, devoid of wrinkles, and soft.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.36) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.17) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit

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